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Article #9416And then he moved /boot to /usr...
From: David Collier-Brown
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1988 06:44
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1988 06:44
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I just had a local site fail to reboot, and then to fsck after someone
made a bit of extra space by moving some files from / to /usr.
Regrettably, one of the files was /boot. (This made it a **bit** hard to
reboot)
Unfortunately, replacing /boot, /vmunix and /etc/fsck didn't do a thing
for the subsequent problem, in which fsck run from the sd0a partition
looped forever. (From mini-unix on sd0b it ran fine).
Does anyone know if the physical position of /boot on the disk is
critical? I'm wondering if the roms find boot at a fixed offset (or by
the same technique used for coredumps during boot?), or if they know about
the filesystem organization. Can anyone dilute my ignorance?
--dave (I'm intensely curious: this is just too wonderfull to pass
up) c-b
--
David Collier-Brown. | yunexus!lethe!dave
Interleaf Canada Inc. |
1550 Enterprise Rd. | HE's so smart he's dumb.
Mississauga, Ontario | --Joyce C-B
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