Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:01:07 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <199812032301.AAA04743@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812022335120.367-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Dec 2, 98 11:38:10 pm"
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As Doug Rabson wrote... > You should be able to make the disk bootable by doing this: > > # disklabel -B /dev/da0c (or /dev/da1c etc.) > > or maybe: > > # disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/da0c > > Make sure that /boot/loader exists in the root partition of the disk being > booted (installworld should have made it). Well, I think I understand what has happened: My axp33 was installed originally with a NetBSD bootfloppy (somewhere in Oct). This gave me a NetBSD first stage boot, and a second stage boot living in /boot The installworld of FreeBSD wants a /boot directory to put /boot/loader and /boot/netboot into. Obviously NetBSD's first stage boot got upset now that it could not find /boot anymore. To get onto the road again I booted the NetBSD installflop again, ran /usr/mdec/installboot to get the NetBSD bootstuff back on the HD. Now I had a bootable HD again. I still want the FreeBSD bootbits so: mv /boot /boot.netbsd mkdir /boot cp loader /boot And then a new nit: axp33# ./disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 da1 boot overlaps used partition a Warning, boot overlaps partition c, marked as FS_BOOT ./disklabel: cannot install boot program axp33# Hmmm. Does this mean I have to re-install from scratch afterall? Thanks, Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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