Hello all,

I'm attempting to install a new root disk on my SparcIPX as the original
Sun/Seagate 424 is making funny noises.

However, I'm having trouble getting it to boot.  Details are:

New disk:  Seagate ST51080N 1Gig SCSI-II

disklabel:
People/rb [prophead:1]# disklabel -r sd3
# /dev/rsd3c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: SUN ST51080N
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 109
tracks/cylinder: 4
sectors/cylinder: 436
cylinders: 4826
rpm: 5376
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   139520        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 319)
  b:   209280   139520      swap                        # (Cyl.  320 - 799)
  c:  2104136        0   unknown                        # (Cyl.    0 - 4825)
  e:  1002800   348800    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  800 - 3099)
  f:   752536  1351600    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 3100 - 4825)

I mounted the root partition at /mnt, usr at /mnt2, installed all the 
files for root & usr, and tried to make it bootable with the 
following commands:

cd /usr/mdec
./binstall -v ffs /mnt

and 

installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rsd3{a,c, tried both}

all of the above gave the following output:

boot: /mnt/boot
proto: /usr/mdec/bootxx
device: /dev/rsd3a
/usr/mdec/bootxx: entry point 0x340000
/usr/mdec/bootxx: a.out header left on
proto bootblock size 7680
room for 256 filesystem blocks at 0x341870
/mnt/boot: block numbers: 304 320 336 2752 

but when I try to boot off the disk the machine complains:

Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open Sun disk label program
Can't open boot device

anyone have any ideas?

Brian

Brian B. Brown        | brian@camtwh.eric.on.ca
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