From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 7: 8:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.crb-web.com (ns1.crb-web.com [209.70.120.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17A8B153B6 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 07:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@crb.crb-web.com) Received: (qmail 23985 invoked by uid 1001); 17 May 1999 13:53:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:53:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy Reply-To: wayne@crb-web.com To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: update boot block after 'make buildworld' In-Reply-To: <19990517110551.D14592@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, you are correct I will do this after installworld. I am using the NT boot manager to read a file I created with 'dd' that consists of the first 512 bytes of the root partition. I don't want to write of the master bootblock of the first disks as to leave the NT boot manager accessible. Does the below command change in this situation? Thanks for your input, Wayne On Mon, 17 May 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:05:51 +0300 > From: Ruslan Ermilov > To: Wayne Cuddy > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: update boot block after 'make buildworld' > > On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:38:17PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > How do I update the boot block after building a new world? > > > Why do you need to update your bootblocks after `buildworld'? > Why not `installworld' first? Anyway... > > After ``buildworld'': > disklabel -B \ > -b /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot1 \ > -s /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2 > da0 > > After ``installworld'': > disklabel -B da0 > > Substitute `wd0' if your root disk is IDE (or whatever your > root disk is). > > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message