Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:43:58 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please test boot patch Message-ID: <200108132043.f7DKhwR01474@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:36 PDT." <XFMail.010813125836.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) > From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> > > > On 13-Aug-01 Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:59 -0700 (PDT) > >> From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> > >> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > >> > >> If for some reason this doesn't work (it should work fine), then you will > >> want > >> to boot off of a floppy or CD, then do 'disklabel -B ad0' as root to restore > >> the old boot blocks. > > > > John, > > > > I tried but had a couple of problems. First, after the 'make all' > > there was no boot2 file in the /sys/boot/i386/boot2 directory. boot2.c > > was there along with bbot2.c.orig, but no output from the make all. > > It's probably located in /usr/obj then, in which case you can do > 'cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2' and then run disklabel. > > > Also, the suggestion to boot from CD if it fails is probably not a good > > one. :-) > > If you have any of the CDROM's you can just boot up the loader, then stop the > countdown and load the kenrel from the hard drive and boot. You can do the > same deal using a kern.flp floppy. OK. After finding the files in /usr/obj and blindly cutting and pasting, I had to reboot off of CD. (Thanks for the suggestion, John. I never thought about being able to do that!) Trying again with the correct command, it works fine. Of course, I have no CD that uses the new boot to confirm that it actually fixes the problem... R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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