Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:51:29 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> Subject: Re: reinstalling boot blocks... Message-ID: <200006180251.TAA04351@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000617121157.A71747@sunbay.com>
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On 17-Jun-00 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:41:16PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >> What is the easiest/safest way to re install the boot blocks on a >> 3.4-RELEASE machine? Can I just use the boot disks, and write out the >> changes in fdisk? (being sure the newfs flag is N! ) ? >> > To install boot blocks (/boot/boot[12]) use `disklabel -B <your_disk>'. > Here <your_disk> could either be just disk name, e.g. wd0, if you use > it in dedicated mode, or there is a single FreeBSD slice on it, or > particular slice name, e.g. wd0s2 (if you have multiple FreeBSD slices). > > To install the standard boot manager (/boot/mbr), use `fdisk -B <your_disk>'. > > To install FreeBSD boot manager which allows you to choose the disk/slice > to boot from, use `fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 <your_disk>'. or `boot0cfg -B <your_disk>'. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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