Subject: Re: move boot disk SLC->ELC no go
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.ibp.fr>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/24/1997 13:36:03
> [problems booting NetBSD/sparc -> bad magic number in disklabel ]
>
> I also tried first with a Sun disklabel (I didn't relabel the disk under
> NetBSD after installation) and a NetBSD disklabel (i.e done with:
> disklabel sd1 >/tmp/toto
> disklabel -r -R sd1 /tmp/toto).
>
> Any idea of what's going wrong here ?
I think you should not be giving the '-r' option to disklabel.
IIRC -r stops NetBSD from generating the SunOS compatability
disklabel that the prom needs...
David