Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:32:19 -0500 From: "Ric Flinn" <rmf@friley10.res.iastate.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing bootstrap code Message-ID: <199609280332.WAA01320@friley10.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:21:27 -0700. <Pine.BSI.3.94.960926212119.2020H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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>On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Ric Flinn wrote: > >> I have freebsd-current installed on my 2nd SCSI drive. The install program >> failed to install any bootstrap code to the disk, so my boot manager does no t >> find any operating system. I know I could install bootstrap code by using >> disklabel -B -w disk label >> but the install program doesnt give a label for the disk in the disktab. Is >> there another way to install bootstrap code to the disk? > >Try 'auto' for the disk type. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > I tried this but also had no luck. The message I got is: disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink It acts like the label that the sysinstall gave me is quite not right. I get similar errors when i try to use a disktab entry that I created using info from the label i extract with disklabel -r sd1. Any more ideas? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ric Flinn rmf@iastate.edu
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