Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:29:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New bootblocks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903160129080.47099-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <wqvJhl_00Uw_0ps3g0@andrew.cmu.edu>
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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
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