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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: installing boot?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812022335120.367-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Dec 2, 98 11:38:10 pm"
To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:01:07 +0100 (CET)
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As Doug Rabson wrote...

> You should be able to make the disk bootable by doing this:
> 
> 	# disklabel -B /dev/da0c (or /dev/da1c etc.)
> 
> or maybe:
> 
> 	# disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/da0c
> 
> Make sure that /boot/loader exists in the root partition of the disk being
> booted (installworld should have made it).

Well, I think I understand what has happened: 

My axp33 was installed originally with a NetBSD bootfloppy (somewhere in
Oct). This gave me a NetBSD first stage boot, and a second stage boot living
in /boot

The installworld of FreeBSD wants a /boot directory to put /boot/loader and
/boot/netboot into. Obviously NetBSD's first stage boot got upset now that
it could not find /boot anymore.

To get onto the road again I booted the NetBSD installflop again, ran
/usr/mdec/installboot to get the NetBSD bootstuff back on the HD. Now I had
a bootable HD again. 

I still want the FreeBSD bootbits so:

mv /boot /boot.netbsd
mkdir /boot
cp loader /boot

And then a new nit:

axp33# ./disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 da1
boot overlaps used partition a
Warning, boot overlaps partition c, marked as FS_BOOT
./disklabel: cannot install boot program
axp33#

Hmmm. Does this mean I have to re-install from scratch afterall?

Thanks,

Wilko
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