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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:31:47 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        berend@pobox.com (Berend de Boer)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building a new system to current
Message-ID:  <199901191131.NAA14265@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <000401be4399$42e9fa00$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> from Berend de Boer at "Jan 19, 99 11:48:33 am"

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Berend de Boer wrote:
> >> - update to the new bootblocks (done)
> >> - move to ELF kernel
> 
> > Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and
> > no a.out cruft anywhere in sight.
> 
> Warning: make world doesn't upgrade the bootblocks as I just detected. I
> tried disklabel -B before but it complained that the device was busy (of
> course).

A "Device busy" is most likely due to specifying the full path of a
block device

    disklabel -B /dev/da0s2a

The best approach is to specify just the drive

    disklabel -B da0

or the slice, if you have more than one FreeBSD slice per drive

    disklabel -B da0s3

-- 
Robert Nordier

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