Clueless about installboot again...

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

Hi,

It seems that every time I want to set up another disk from scratch, 
installboot is unclear or doesn't work. Anyone have a clue they're willing 
to share?

Thanks,
John Klos


bunny# installboot -v /dev/rwd1a bootxx /boot
File system:         /dev/rwd1a
File system type:    ffs (blocksize 16384, needswap 0)
Primary bootstrap:   bootxx
Secondary bootstrap: /boot
installboot: Can't write sector 0 of `/dev/rwd1a': Read-only file system
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
bunny# installboot -v /dev/wd1a bootxx /boot
File system:         /dev/wd1a
File system type:    ffs (blocksize 16384, needswap 0)
Primary bootstrap:   bootxx
Secondary bootstrap: /boot
Bootstrap start sector: 4
Bootstrap byte count:   1756
Bootstrap block table:  118 entries of 16384 bytes available, 4 used: 5536 5568 
5600 5496
Writing bootstrap
installboot: Writing `/dev/wd1a': Read-only file system
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
bunny# installboot -v /dev/rwd1c /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot
File system:         /dev/rwd1c
File system type:    ffs (blocksize 16384, needswap 0)
Primary bootstrap:   /usr/mdec/bootxx
Secondary bootstrap: /boot
installboot: Could not find secondary bootstrap `boot' in `/dev/rwd1c'
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed
bunny# installboot -v /dev/rwd1c /usr/mdec/bootxx
File system:         /dev/rwd1c
Primary bootstrap:   /usr/mdec/bootxx
assertion "params->fstype != NULL" failed: file 
"/usr/src/usr.sbin/installboot/bbinfo.c", line 136, function "shared_bbinfo_setboot"
Abort (core dumped)