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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: boot0cfg bsdlabel under current
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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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