From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 13 11:53: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF33437B40F for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA20743 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:59 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Please test boot patch Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please test the patch at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch to ensure that it works on 4.x-stable as I would like to get it in 4.4 if possible. It is needed in order for many IBM machines to successfully boot off of CD's to install. The patch is relative to /sys/boot. To test, do the following: > fetch http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch > cd /sys/boot ; patch < ../path/to/ibm_boot.patch > make all > cd i386/boot2 > disklabel -B -b ./boot2 -s ./boot2 ad0 # or whatever drive you boot - reboot - If for some reason this doesn't work (it should work fine), then you will want to boot off of a floppy or CD, then do 'disklabel -B ad0' as root to restore the old boot blocks. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message