From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 14:33:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02785 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kar.net (n180.cdialup.kar.net [195.178.130.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02766 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:33:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kushn@mail.kar.net) Received: from localhost (volodya@localhost) by mail.kar.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01672 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:32:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kushn@mail.kar.net) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:32:48 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir X-Sender: volodya@kushnir.kiev.ua To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? In-Reply-To: <199810290446.UAA00420@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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 ===========================|======================= Vladimir Kushnir | kushn@mail.kar.net, | Powered by FreeBSD kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message