From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 21:40: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ixion.honeywell.com (ixion.honeywell.com [129.30.4.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB69414CAE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 21:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sleas@ixion.honeywell.com) Received: by ixion.honeywell.com (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA018895403; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 23:36:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 23:36:43 -0500 From: Shawn Leas To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid question Message-Id: <19990410233643.A1376@ixion.honeywell.com> References: <19990408235639.A25082@ixion.honeywell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > There's a neat file called /boot/boot.conf you stuff this into. See 'man > boot' or 'man btx' for info. Well, there's no btx manpage in 3.1R, and when I've tried to boot wd0s4e at all I get "not a ufs" or somesuch error. I've done "disklabel -w -B wd0s4e auto", which I thought installed what I needed, but to no avail. man disklabel and man boot don't give me quite enough to get past this. Maybe there should be a handbook entry on preparing a partition for use as a `root', or, `boot' partition. Can someone just outline very basically the steps so I can get this over with? -- Shawn <=========== America Held Hostage ===========> Day 2271 for the poor and the middle class. Day 2290 for the rich and the dead. 651 days remaining in the Raw Deal. <============================================> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message