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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > > 	Floppies will always work, I meant the HD.  Normally, it would
> > > have that bootstrap where it would allow you to boot with options but the
> > > only thing that comes up is Read error and no message even before the
> > > brief pause normally.
> > 
> > booteasy may be damaged then, you might try reinstalling it.
> 
> 	No idea, I don't use booteasy since it's a FreeBSD only drive on
> the second HD and I use System Commander but that doesn
> t write to the second HD.

Dooh, not booteasy, I mean to say the boot blocks.  

disklabel -B sd0    or replace sd0 with the appropriate canonical disk
name.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major