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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: conf/35262: Generation of boot block for headless
  operation no longer works 
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The following reply was made to PR conf/35262; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/35262: Generation of boot block for headless
  operation no longer works 
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:31:43 -0700

 Is there a way to make the instructions (or ones like them) work?
 One shouldn't have to build the world to modify the boot block.
 
 By the way, another related problem: disklabel -B doesn't seem to work on
 a new 4.5-RELEASE install... even if you're simply overwriting with a
 fresh copy of the original boot block. Here's what happens:
 
 neo# disklabel -B ad4
 disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
 
 I'm not sure how to diagnose what's wrong here. (Note: 4.5-RELEASE was
 installed on a machine where the two available hard drives were ad4 and
 ad6.)
 
 --Brett
 
 At 09:35 AM 2/25/2002, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
   
 
 
 >On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:57:56 PST, Brett Glass wrote:
 >
 >> >Number:         35262
 >> >Category:       conf
 >> >Synopsis:       Generation of boot block for headless operation no longer works
 >
 >Confirmed.  I can only build boot blocks after a buildworld +
 >buildkernel.  The instructions in the handbook no longer work.
 >
 >Ciao,
 >Sheldon.
 

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