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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:32:48 +0200 (EET)
From:      Vladimir Kushnir <kushn@mail.kar.net>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810300026450.1116-100000@kushnir.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199810290446.UAA00420@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > 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'.
> 

Sorry, this is probably stupid question, but all the same. How do I update
these boot blocks in a dual-boot situation (wd0s1 - win95, wd0s2 -
FreeBSD)? And do I need/can/want to update boot manager to a new boot0 as
well (I got a rather oldish BIOS here)? 

Thanks in advance,
Vladimir


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