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2 total messages Started by Tony Reeves Mon, 03 Aug 1992 16:28

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Author: Tony Reeves
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 16:28

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This last weekend we wanted to format our zd1a disk. So we copyed over zd1a
(our boot disk) to zd3a and wanted to boot up the system single user from
zd3a. We had, we thought, a geniric kernel setup on zd3a to boot. Yet
everytime we would try to boot the system would just hang at the test. of the
bootstrap. it just sat there dead in the water. Next we tryed to boot up from
an old tape (3.0.17). It also would not boot. so we had to give up and let it
reboot from zd1a dynix as always. Anyone know how to make it boot from
something other than zd1?

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---- The opitions expressed here are mine and have nothing to do with Hughes
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Re: can't boot...

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Author: Bob Foertsch
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 18:37

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tony@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM (Tony Reeves) writes:

>This last weekend we wanted to format our zd1a disk. So we copyed over zd1a
>(our boot disk) to zd3a and wanted to boot up the system single user from
>zd3a. We had, we thought, a geniric kernel setup on zd3a to boot. Yet
>everytime we would try to boot the system would just hang at the test. of the
>bootstrap. it just sat there dead in the water. Next we tryed to boot up from
>an old tape (3.0.17). It also would not boot. so we had to give up and let it
>reboot from zd1a dynix as always. Anyone know how to make it boot from
>something other than zd1?

>-- 
>Why did the Roman Empire Collapse? What is latin for Office Automation?
>---- The opitions expressed here are mine and have nothing to do with Hughes
>Aircraft Co. -- So there! tony@hacgate.hac.com

try making a kernel with a root and swap at zd3a while your current system is
running. when you copy your root over to zd3 be sure that this new kernel
is /dynix. things then will be just fine. you also need to be sure there
is a boot block on zd3 and a /boot file on zd3a. see the installboot command

you might try using a true generic kernel. i have no experience with that,
but i have used the above procedure several times with success.

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 |	Bob Foertsch			|	Unix Systems Administrator    |
 |					|	University of Illinois        |
 |	bob-foertsch@uiuc.edu		|	1304 West Springfield         |
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