Subject: Re: Hung Reboot
To: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
From: Missing - presumed fed. <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/02/1997 23:11:39
"Tom T. Thai" sez:
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 * files?  If this is so, when I 
 * # installboot /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rsd0a
 * installboot: open raw partition RW: Device busy
 * 
 * Should I be in single user mode to do this?  The system seems to run fine
 * (so far) with 1.0A bootstrapping codes.

Most emphatically, yes, you should do this in single-user mode.
Doing it in multi-user mode can hose your bootblocks in a VERY
bad way.

While you're at it, install bootloaders on at least one or two other
partitions so you have something to fall back on if you blow it.

[...and NEVER delete /gnetbsd...]

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