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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!mrvm.its.uct.ac.za!murray From: murray@its.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: How to get boot code installed. Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 12:02:01 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 35 Message-ID: <murray.38.2E2134B9@its.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: mrvm.its.uct.ac.za Keywords: boot freebsd upgrade Hi folks: I have just upgraded the two Unixes on my net to 1.1.5.1. It went well (with some handholding), and I am now running smoothly. I upgraded by applying the patch script, not by reloading, as I usually prefer to. (You see, I am a sucker for punishment ;-) Two questions: 1) What upgrades have been done to the boot code since version 1.3? (Mine is 1.3, it still works, but the current stuff in /usr/mdec is much higher than that) 2) How do I get sdboot and bootsd onto my disk? I know about the disklabel route, but that depends on having an entry for the disk in disktab, which _I_ don't. I tried the one (sorry about being vague, my machine is elsewhere) whre you write a file with 'disklabel -r sd0 > file', then use disklabel -w -F(?) sd0 file sdboot bootsd (with the correct paths) but disklabel puked. It seems like a pain to have to figure out a disktab entry, but I will if I have to. :-( Thanks M -- Mark Murray (ITS/MURRAY) \+/ Internet: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za User support services +X+ Voice: +27 21 650 3025 Information Technology Services, /+\ This .sig is umop ap!sdn University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa