Re-installing bootmanager

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-05-14 21:24, Guy Van Sanden <n.b at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:41, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2003-05-13 18:08, Guy Van Sanden <n.b at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>>On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:45, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>>On 2003-05-12 11:52, Guy Van Sanden <n.b at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>>>> I tried to follow some suggestions I got on this list to get my
>>>>> self-made mirror-disk to boot. [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> I used fdisk from the console, and that worked.
>>>>> However, now I don't have the disk bootable.
>>>>
>>>> Use the boot0cfg(8) utility to write BootEasy in the MBR of your media.
>>>>
>>>> 	# boot0cfg ad1
>>>
>>> Do I need to run bootlabel -B on the root partition additionally?
>>
>> What is bootlabel?  There is no bootlabel utility.  If you mean
>> boot0cfg, no you don't need to run it on the partition.
>
> I'm sorry, I meant disklabel...

Ah, yes of course.  boot0cfg only installs the boot0 loader at the
beginning of the disk.  You should partition the disk with fdisk and
label it with disklabel too.

There is an article on FreeBSD.org describing exactly this sort of
thing.  It's called "Formatting Media For Use With FreeBSD".  Perhaps
this will be of some help?

http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/

- Giorgos