John Baldwin wrote: > > Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that? If so, > try > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch You'll need to > do > a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying, > and if > the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (replace ad0s1 > with the > actual slice you boot from). I think it should work (I think it was > tested a > while ago, but boot2 used to not fit, now it does though). Be warned > though > that if it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot from your disk. If > that > happens and you have a 6.x disc 1 lying around, you can boot into > rescue mode > and re-run 'bsdlabel' and move boot/loader.old to boot/loader on the > root > partition to get your system back. Ideally you'd try this on a system > with > data you don't care about (i.e., it's ok to just do a reinstall if it > is > hosed).
Certainly. I'll try this out tomorrow and let you know how it goes. I have a machine running -CURRENT which can be used as guinea pig. Thanks John. -- Dominic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
