From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 15 17:29:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E67715585 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:28:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA51250; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:30:08 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:29:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Thomas Valentino Crimi Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New bootblocks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote: > > Speaking of which, it seems the new bootblocks are slightly larger (8k > up from around 6k), could this be causing this problem: > > > disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 da0 > boot overlaps used partition a > boot overlaps used partition b > Warning, boot overlaps partition c, marked as FS_BOOT > boot overlaps used partition d > disklabel: cannot install boot program > > > i.e. Am I going to have to wipe a partition to get the new bootblocks, as well? Ouch. It looks like I am going to have to spend some time hacking the bootstrap again. This time, I will try to make it possible to fall back to loader.old. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message