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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org, (Nate Williams) <nate@yogotech.com>
Subject:   Re: Please test boot patch
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010813125838.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05100302b79ddb8c8d39@[207.76.207.129]>

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On 13-Aug-01 Mark Peek wrote:
> 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

Aww dang it, yes.  Typo. :(

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