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Article #9758Re: And then he moved /boot to /usr...
From: Celeste C. Stokely
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 23:56
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 23:56
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Yes, as it turns out, /boot is in a VERY particular spot. something like
starting at disk block 15 or some such voodoo. The only way you can get it
back in the right place is by running "/usr/etc/mdec/installboot xx yyyy",
(under 3.x, anyway), which of course isn't documented.
Say it's a server with xy disks. You do:
installboot bootxy xy0a
(at least, I think you'd say xy0a. try it. if you can then boot, you did
it right.)
installboot is a shell script which does a dd of the bootfile to a spot on
the disk. Installing bootblocks is all /usr/mdec is used for, I believe.
..Celeste Stokely
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: celeste@coherent.com (Celeste C. Stokely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: And then he moved /boot to /usr... Message-ID: <8812091620.AA08571@frosted.coherent.com> Date: 19 Dec 88 23:56:51 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 88 08:20:05 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 62, message 4 of 12