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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Issues with SCSI boot and PS/2 mouse Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:49:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ctst8$3ps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc0a7a$73186e00$8caee1cc@bfa> <32EC700F.25F8@metrosol.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34975 Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk> wrote: > If I use disklabel to put the new blocks on a floppy, It behaves just > the same, but if I dd them on then the system hangs during boot1. Uh-oh. You have dd'ed them onto the disk? Better use disklabel -B. If you fear that you render your disk unbootable, save a copy of your old bootblocks on your fixit floppy before. So if things fail, you can boot install + fixit, and restore the old bootblocks (again, using disklabel -B, but you might need the -b and -s options then). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)