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Article #9755Re: And then he moved /boot to /usr...
From: Billy Ross
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 22:56
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 22:56
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David Collier-Brown writes:
>Does anyone know if the physical position of /boot on the disk is
>critical?
Yes, unlike other 4.3 systems, Sun 4.0 requires that the bootblock know
the location of the /boot binary. From the installboot(8) manual page:
The boot(8S) program is loaded from disk by bootblock code
which resides in the bootblock area of a disk partition. In
order for the bootblock code to read the boot program (usu-
ally /boot) it is necessary for it to know the block numbers
occupied by the boot program. Previous versions of the
bootblock code could find /boot by interpreting the file
system on the partition from which it was being booted, but
this is no longer so.
Bill Ross Washington University ECL, St. Louis 314-889-5894
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: wucs1!br@uunet.uu.net (Billy Ross) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: And then he moved /boot to /usr... Message-ID: <611@wucs1.wustl.edu> Date: 19 Dec 88 22:56:28 GMT References: <3445@geaclib.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 9 Dec 88 16:13:49 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 62, message 1 of 12