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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can not boot without a floppy Date: 4 May 1996 11:19:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4mfeg9$lob@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m8tpp$soe@news.zipnet.net> 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 mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: (``dangerously dedicated'' setup) > Nobody ever asked me about a boot-manager, but now I can only That's quite natural, the BSD bootstrap forms the MBR, so there is no space for any boot manager. > boot using the install-floppy and typing wd(0,a)/kernel every > time... How to set the MBR, so that it will work correctly? What happens when trying to boot? Since the BSD bootstrap is identical with the MBR, you can re-install it with ``disklabel -B wd0''. However (!), be aware that this will clobber your fdisk table on the drive. Not that you really need it, but the default installation always assumes a `sliced' disk and uses slice names in /etc/fstab. You have to convert them into non-sliced names before rebooting: Previously (example): /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 7 1 /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw /dev/sd1s1a /usr ufs rw 14 2 Non-sliced version: /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 7 1 /dev/sd0b none swap sw /dev/sd1a /usr ufs rw 14 2 -- 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. ;-)