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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!isis.fiu.edu!usenet.fiu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!swrinde!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers,London W13,+44.956.361.769,+44.181.840.7880) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: disklabel and new bootstrap code Date: 10 Mar 1995 01:37:26 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3joagm$sl@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <3jk779$l6@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jon Jenkins (jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com) wrote: : Hi, : I want to change some items in the bootstrap : code most importantly the delay time for automatic : bootup. I duly went to /sys/i386/boot/biosboot : and modified the Makefile to change 5000 to 15000 : did: : make clean : make all : make install : thwn I tried to update the bootdtrap code : with: : disklabel -B sd0 : and promptly got a warning that : Warning, revolutions/minute 0 : super block size 0 You'll probably need to write an entry in /etc/disktab for your disk config. It's a bit laborious, but you should get enough info from the man pages. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....