From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 24 01:18:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA16177 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA16155 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA17451; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:18:23 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA24285; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:18:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA00579; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:09:56 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603240909.KAA00579@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: IDE install To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:09:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: randy@zyzzyva.com (Randy Terbush) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603240220.UAA02814@sierra.zyzzyva.com> from "Randy Terbush" at Mar 23, 96 08:20:02 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Randy Terbush wrote: > My next question is "how do I get these new boot blocks on without > doing this again?". Pick disklabel(8) from -current. I've made it understand about fdisk tables. The cases where it's still clobbering the fdisk table are documented in the man page. Basically, a simple ``disklabel -B sd0'' will work. If you decided to not chose the ``dangerously dedicated'' layout again at time of reinstallation, you don't need to do anything. The BSD disklabel and the fdisk table are different then. They are only identical for the ``dangerously dedicated'' case, where the BSD bootstrap serves as master boot record. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)