Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:33:45 -0700 From: Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test boot patch Message-ID: <p05100302b79ddb8c8d39@[207.76.207.129]> In-Reply-To: <15224.10573.605415.546408@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <XFMail.010813115259.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <15224.10573.605415.546408@nomad.yogotech.com>
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At 1:23 PM -0600 8/13/01, Nate Williams wrote: > > Please test the patch at >http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch to >> ensure that it works on 4.x-stable as I would like to get it in >>4.4 if possible. >> It is needed in order for many IBM machines to successfully boot >>off of CD's to >> install. The patch is relative to /sys/boot. To test, do the following: >> >> > fetch http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ibm_boot.patch >> > cd /sys/boot ; patch < ../path/to/ibm_boot.patch >> > make all >> > cd i386/boot2 > > > disklabel -B -b ./boot2 -s ./boot2 ad0 # or whatever >drive you boot Shouldn't this be boot1 ^ disklabel -B -b ./boot1 -s ./boot2 ad0 >No go on my ThinkPad T20. I just rebooted, and got the dreaded' Missing >Operating System' error. :( > >(Where'd I stick that darn boot disk now. :) If you followed the instructions above, I could understand why you got that error message. Can you retry with the above correction? Thanks, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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