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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:46:36 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? 
Message-ID:  <199810290446.UAA00420@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:44:05 %2B0800." <199810290344.LAA02525@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> 

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> Can someone give me a pointer? I'm still running an a.out kernel on a system 
> that was installed from a 3.0 snapshot CD and has been kept upto date via cvs 
> since.

  make world

followed by 

  disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 <disk>

will upgrade you completely.  The visible parts of the new loader are 
in /boot/loader, and are updated by 'make world'.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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