Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:50:50 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Struble <ian@broken.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.991107081155.5698k-100000@disavowed.broken.net>
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Hi, I am in a bit of a jam. I can not seem to properly update the boot blocks to get /boot/loader to be the default bootstrap file. And to make it even better I am doing this for someone else via ssh so when I fail I get to call someone else on the phone to explicitely bootstrap '/boot/loader', so someone else gets to share in my mistakes :^) But back to the problem. First thing I tried doing was trace through tools/tools/upgrade/doupgrade.sh and try to build a kernel and updrate the disklabel and boot block just how it was done there: # make kernel with a '-B' make -B depends; make -B ; make -B install # update the boot blocks(yes the system is using da0 not wd0) disklabel -B da0 That didn't seem to do anything other than install the new kernel. I know this because now that someone manually booted with machine with '/boot/loader', ps, w and top are able to read and display proc information again. Since that first attempt did not work I tried being more precise with disklabel: disklabel -B da0 -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 Still no luck. The last time I moved a system from a.out to elf was a long time ago and it was all relatively painless. I guess the fact that those machines were my work and home workstations didn't hurt but even so I didn't think that it was going to be that much of a pain. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I forgot? Or any suggestions for something else that I should do or check. Anything and everything would be greatly appreciated at this point. Thanks in advance, Ian oh. The drive is fully dedicated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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