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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > > > 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.
> 
> 	Will do that...  But how will I run disklabel if the drive
> wouldn't even boot FreeBSD up?

You said your boot floppy works to start your hard-disk copy of FreeBSD,
right? Boot FreeBSD using it, then run the command. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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