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Article #10073Re: procedures for restoring root partition wrong in SunOS4.0 manual
From: Leonard J. Peirce
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1989 04:53
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1989 04:53
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bob@kahala.hig.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) writes:
>But, nothing works right... Have faith; it's not your
>fault that nothing works right at this point, the procedures in the manual
>are both wrong and misleading.
Also, on page 104, step 9, the procedure for installing the boot block is
wrong. The example is be
# installboot /boot bootsd /dev/sd0a
It's wrong two different ways:
1) The /boot is misleading in the context of the examples. It should be
/mnt/boot because /dev/sd0a is mounted on /mnt.
2) installboot only works with raw devices. It should use /dev/rsd0a.
The way the installboot example should read is:
# installboot /mnt/boot bootsd /dev/rsd0a
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!ukma!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: procedures for restoring root partition wrong in SunOS4.0 manual Message-ID: <626@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> Date: 5 Jan 89 04:53:35 GMT References: <8812151734.AA00719@kahala.hig.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 25 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 24 Dec 88 19:38:12 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 89, message 2 of 11