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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:52:11 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811020951180.454-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811012004.MAA05384@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> > > Please elaborate on the ``not made bootable'' part. I finished the install
> > > (like I said elsewhere) and am terrified that it will not reboot (took many
> > > hours to install ftp...)
> > 
> > You need to type something like this before shutting down:
> > 
> > 	# disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/rda0c
> > 	# cp /usr/mdec/loader /boot
> 
> You forgot to copy boot2 from/to the same location.  This will lead to 
> a mild disaster (although you can boot the install kernel, not change 
> the floppy so the mfsroot.gz load fails, and it will come up using the 
> harddisk as root).

In my locally built snapshot, boot2 has been renamed to loader so this bit
worked fine.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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