> >   I was wondering this recently, as I found some installboot related
> > source files in /usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/stand but they don't get
> > compiled in a full make as far as I can see - is there a reason they
> > don't?   (should go in /usr/mdec I guess)
>

I still want to find out about the form of interaction the `installboot'
program should have with disklabel(8). Maybe there should be none even,
as labeling a disk and installing bootblocks into a partition are quite
independent operations.


> I just checked some of the file modification times, they're
> considerably more recent than when i last tried them. If your disk is
> not booting anyway, give them a try, especially if your prom version
> is 2.x rather than 1.x like mine.  Otherwise, I'd suggest you make
> sure you have some other way to recover (I used a second identical
> disk).

As far as I was able to verify, it should work on v1 (SS1,SLC,IPC),
v2 (SS2,ELC,IPX) and v3 (Classic,SS5) PROMs, but not "old monitor"
sun4 machines.

-pk