Re: installing bootblocks on a new drive

[Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:50:21AM +0000, Milos Negovanovic wrote:
> 
> After replacing a failed drive in RAID1 array I am trying to install
> bootblocks on a new disk via:
> 
> /usr/sbin/installboot -o timeout=5 -v /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
> 
> 
> When I try to boot of the new drive all I get is a reboot? Any ideas?

Is there any bootcode in the mbr of wd0 (see `fdisk -B' & mbr(8))? If
not, does the partition table of wd0 contain an active partition?

As far as I remember, the first 446 bytes of the mbr may be empty, if
the mbr partition table contains an active partition and the BIOS is
clever enough.



   Petar Bogdanovic