From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 21:18:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net (fepout4.telus.net [199.185.220.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4AD37B403 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 21:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from a7a42593 ([64.180.244.221]) by priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20020602041830.ETZG2295.priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:18:30 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Tyler Spivey Reply-To: Tyler Spivey Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: boot blocks overritten - help please Message-Id: <20020602041830.ETZG2295.priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:18:30 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok - i'm new to freebsd (dabbled in it before) and was trying to set my comconsole speed to 19200. i set the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED in /etc/make.conf, and tried the boot2 method in the handbook: cd /usr/src/boot/i386/boot2 #or whatever it is make i posted the script error output of that a few hours ago. then i tried: (from some other site): cd /usr/src/i386/boot/biosboot make cp boot1 boot2 /boot disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/ad0s1 and it didn't work - and my system is hosed, i can't boot. the system isn't important, but i would like to know how to fix this if possible, any pointers/commands/etc? tia, Tyler Spivey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message