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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:16:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD bootup problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970226191528.8482J-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970226031906.438j-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>

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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > > > booteasy may be damaged then, you might try reinstalling it.
> > > 
> > > 	No idea, I don't use booteasy since it's a FreeBSD only drive on
> > > the second HD and I use System Commander but that doesn
> > > t write to the second HD.
> > 
> > Dooh, not booteasy, I mean to say the boot blocks.  
> > 

> > disklabel -B sd0    or replace sd0 with the appropriate canonical disk
> > name.
> 
> 	Will do that...  But how will I run disklabel if the drive
> wouldn't even boot FreeBSD up?

You said your boot floppy works to start your hard-disk copy of FreeBSD,
right? Boot FreeBSD using it, then run the command. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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