Subject: Re: install questions
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/1998 08:35:19
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > 
> > Here's a few questions on booting that I haven't seen answers for...
> > 
> > I netbooted by VS3100 and got it's local drive paritioned and formatted
> > and put a full dist along with the same kernel I used for netbooting on
> > it.  I did a 'disklabel -B sd0' (also tried `disklabel -B /dev/rsd0c`) to
> > write bootblocks. Now, if I do a 'boot dka0' (dka 0 being my install
> > drive), it says:
> > 
> >   -DKA0
> >   howto 0x1, bdev 0x2a, booting...Boot failed, saerrorno 2
> > 
> (The same question was asked a week ago, I think).
> This means that there is no boot program in the root directory of the
> first partition of the disk; the second stage boot loader. You managed
> to write the boot blocks correctly.
> 
> -- Ragge
> 
What are the names of each of these boot programs? I see rdboot, sdboot, 
xxboot, etc in /usr/mdec, but have no clue as to which is primary or 
secondary. sdboot sounds like what I need for the RZ24.

P.S.A.