Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bosco Tsang <bosco@ipoline.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto Boot from third hard disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970816130548.7455D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970814192108.0092da00@ipoline.com>
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Bosco Tsang wrote: > >If you've installed, not upgraded, FreeBSD in the 2.2.x series. > > Just check and find that our version, coming from Walnet Creek CD-Rom, is > 2.1. Is boot.config still working? If yes, where should I place the > boot.config? I don't believe 2.1.0 didn't have this feature. In any case, you put the string in /boot.config. > If no, what else can I do? Or can I do some upgrade without reinstalling > the whole FreeBSD, as it's one of our busy servers. I believe you can just reinstall the boot block by using disklabel's b opiton. You'll have to grab the /usr/mdec directory from 2.2.2 or later, though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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