From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 05:23:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA16376 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 05:23:03 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA16364 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 05:22:49 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA18391; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 14:22:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA07891; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 14:22:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA09585; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 09:50:32 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507060750.JAA09585@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bootblocks won't take to IDE HDD To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 09:50:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507060612.CAA18775@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Jul 6, 95 02:12:21 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 798 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As dennis wrote: > > In trying to debug a boot problem described earlier I've found that I can't > change the boot blocks on my IDE HDD. I've done the "make install" from the > 'i386/boot' directory and then a "disklabel -B wd0" but the old boot blocks > seem to remain. Running "disklabel -B fd0" seems to work ok. Any ideas? Did disklabel complain about ``super block size 0'', ``revolutions per minute 0'', or ``interleave 0''? Go and fix those errors before (disklabel -e), disklabel will otherwise refuse to install a bootstrap. (The reason for the errors is fixed in the -current libdisk, and i think will also be fixed in the upcoming snap.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)