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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot0cfg bsdlabel under current
Message-ID:  <20040427102742.O34678@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <200404261134.35476.fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>
References:  <200404261134.35476.fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote:

> recently i had no success in using boot0cfg and bsdlabel to repair boot
> process  under current. The only way that worked was booting with a live-cd
> and using sysinstall from there. Is there some documentation regarding
> freebsd-current for this?

Man pages :)  I think there is a handbook section on boot0cfg too,
although I'd have to check.

> Are boot0cfg and bsdlabel supposed to work on mounted devices? The process was
> not successful, but there where no obvious error messages visible.

You should ahve gotten anerror, but no, it is not supposed to work to keep
yourself from really confusing things.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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