On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 02:05:33PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I've been scripting up procedures to add new bootable disks to a system
> and noticed that on i386 the "installboot" program avoids one obvious
> step.
> 
> On sparc it seems I must do the following:
> 
>	cp /usr/mdec/boot /stand-sd1
> 	umount /stand-sd1
> 	installboot -v -m sparc /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx boot
> 	mount /stand-sd1
> 
> However on i386 I need only do:
> 
> 	umount /stand-sd1
> 	/usr/mdec/installboot -v /usr/mdec/biosboot_com0.sym /dev/rsd1a
> 	mount /stand-sd1
> 
> as installboot will mount the named partition on a temporary directory
> and copy the second-stage boot program to the partition's root
> directory, then unmount it again and update the boot sector properly.

The i386 port has been changed to use /sbin/installboot and now requires
the user to copy the second level bootstrap into the root filesystem.

FWIW you don't want to know what happened on the i386 install floppies!

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk