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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD booting, >1024 cyls, and boot disk Date: 21 Oct 1995 12:24:53 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <46ala5$gh4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4650fe$ifg@NNTP.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit David Simmons <simmons@aris.com> wrote: >After recompiling the kernel on a FreeBSD box, the machine refuses to >boot up -- it doesn't even give the Boot: prompt to select a kernel. >I am able to use an installation boot disk to get a Boot: prompt, and >select the kernel on the disk, and boot successfully. You've hosed your bootblocks. The kernel is okay. >I assume that the 'disklabel' program is roughly equivalent to the >SunOS 'installboot' program as far as committing the boot files to >be the boot blocks. I tried a 'disklabel -B wd0' with no luck. disklabel -B -r wd0 would work if you are using a non-sliced disk (i.e., FreeBSD owns the entire disk). I'm not quite sure, it should also work for a sliced disk, to be sure, use disklabel -B -r wd0sX with X being the "slice" number (fdisk table slot #, starting at 1) of your FreeBSD boot slice. -- 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. ;-)