Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:24:38 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installboot (was Re: Boot) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980310112024.28890H-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980309121125.17743B-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jeff Lynch wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
>
> > wd(0,a)
> >
> > I tried running /stand/sysinstall and rewriting the boot track but that
> > still didn't work (assuming I did it right, its not as if it tells you it
> > was done).
>
> This, I think is an important question to ISPs and anyone else
> heavily using FreeBSD. When I needed to do this on SunOS4.1.x,
> I just booted off CD or as a diskless client, mounted /usr
> and ran "installboot" with the appropriate args. Worked like
> a champ. I have yet to find a parallel to this for FreeBSD.
> But then, on SunOS we didn't have any possibly tricky boot managers
> to consider. Anyone know the magic incantation, assuming one exitst?
Hmmm... And what's wrong with:
disklabel -Brw wd0 auto
or any other incantation including 'disklabel' ? :-) You could even write
an 'installboot' script to feel comfortable:
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#!/bin/sh
disklabel -Brw $1 auto
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Andrzej Bialecki
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