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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:51:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
Subject:   Re: reinstalling boot blocks...
Message-ID:  <200006180251.TAA04345@john.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006171232010.7464-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>

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On 17-Jun-00 Andy Farkas wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Shawn Ramsey wrote:
> 
>> What is the easiest/safest way to re install the boot blocks on a 
>> 3.4-RELEASE machine? Can I just use the boot disks, and write out the 
>> changes in fdisk? (being sure the newfs flag is N! ) ?
> 
># cd sys/boot
># make install

Then use disklabel -B ad0 (or whatever your disk is called) to
actually update the boot blocks.

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