**HEADS UP** FreeBSD-5 boot code has been committed

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Wed Nov 12 23:27:06 PST 2003


-On [20031110 07:42], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>    WARNING!  I tested both boot0 (which is installed by fdisk -B) and boot2
>    (which is installde by disklabel -B) and they appear to work, but you
>    should still be careful if/when you decide to install new boot blocks.

I'd advice people to also recheck using: boot0cfg -v

Since using fdisk -B and disklabel -B left my bootcode hosed.  Also,
people might need to -o packet to boot0cfg to boot above cylinder 1023.

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