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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-10-07 05:01:58 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-10-07 05:01:58 +0000
commit504595d70a2634bec3061187e5ce9cafe7ab371f (patch)
tree160c633ab3829d435d5124ed80d119d2a9915342 /sys
parentf20727844f678bc6a1685af7d49cbee34712a3b5 (diff)
describe how to update from 2.1
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.811
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8
index 93188136f34..a294d2d8a08 100644
--- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.10 1997/09/30 22:23:57 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.11 1997/10/07 05:01:57 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Shalayeff
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -127,7 +127,14 @@ The typical use is
.Pp
And if the information supplied looks right, run the above without the
.Fl n
-flag.
+flag. If you are upgrading an old system, you may need to preface
+the above steps with some more steps... and do the following:
+.Pp
+.Dl boot the floppy.fs filesystem floppy
+.Dl # fsck /dev/rsd0a
+.Dl # mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
+.Dl # cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
+.Dl # /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd0
.Pp
If you are replacing much older versions of the bootblocks on your
drive, you will need to use the