Subject: Re: Problems booting from HD...
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca>
From: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/17/1995 00:30:20
On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, David Gilbert wrote:
> I suspect here that you haven't got your boot program in place
> on that drive (but I could be wrong). See the instructions with
> 'installboot' which is in the sys/arch/sparc/stand directory.
Well, I used the "install.sh" shell script to install NetBSD, so
I assumed it was doing everything. Just to ensure that the boot program
was installed properly, I did it manually as well. Here's what I did
(all done in single user mode):
1. Boot NetBSD over the network
2. Mount /dev/sd0a on /mnt
3. /usr/mdec/binstall ffs /mnt
4. installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rsd0a
Neither binstall nor installboot reported any sort of an error
and it still doesn't work. Any other ideas? Did I do something wrong?
Thanks for the help!
Mike.
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