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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
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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....