From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 8:50:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from disavowed.broken.net (disavowed.broken.net [204.216.142.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156DB14E07 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ian@disavowed.broken.net) Received: (from ian@localhost) by disavowed.broken.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA12645; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:50:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:50:50 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Struble To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am in a bit of a jam. I can not seem to properly update the boot blocks to get /boot/loader to be the default bootstrap file. And to make it even better I am doing this for someone else via ssh so when I fail I get to call someone else on the phone to explicitely bootstrap '/boot/loader', so someone else gets to share in my mistakes :^) But back to the problem. First thing I tried doing was trace through tools/tools/upgrade/doupgrade.sh and try to build a kernel and updrate the disklabel and boot block just how it was done there: # make kernel with a '-B' make -B depends; make -B ; make -B install # update the boot blocks(yes the system is using da0 not wd0) disklabel -B da0 That didn't seem to do anything other than install the new kernel. I know this because now that someone manually booted with machine with '/boot/loader', ps, w and top are able to read and display proc information again. Since that first attempt did not work I tried being more precise with disklabel: disklabel -B da0 -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 Still no luck. The last time I moved a system from a.out to elf was a long time ago and it was all relatively painless. I guess the fact that those machines were my work and home workstations didn't hurt but even so I didn't think that it was going to be that much of a pain. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I forgot? Or any suggestions for something else that I should do or check. Anything and everything would be greatly appreciated at this point. Thanks in advance, Ian oh. The drive is fully dedicated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message