From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 4 10:16:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14450 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:16:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14438 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id MAA02934; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:15:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id MAA02930; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:15:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <023101be380e$6030efb0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: "FreeBSD-Current" Subject: Re: New BOOT Blocks - installation docs? Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:16:40 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. The disklabel part is what I was missing. Has anybody created an online document for Jan 6? >check the date on the files in /boot to make sure they have been installed >properly, then: > >disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 > > > >(i assume you know how to compile a kernel) > >to compile an ELF kernel you need to set the enviorment variable >KERNFORMAT to 'elf' > >setenv KERNFORMAT elf >-or- >export KERNFORMAT=elf > >then in the compile/kernelname dir: >make clean >make depend >make all >make install > >reboot. > >-Alfred > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message