Subject: Re: Install of 1.6.1 on an AS4100 with Mylex DAC960 (DEC KZPAC)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Collin Baillie <tifkat@no1.com.au>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/29/2003 12:59:34
Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>>>I fear you have to go with manual install. I remeber something about
>>>ld not being part of the possible disks names for sysinst.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>That's cool... can anyone offer anyhelp on the installboot problem I was 
>>experiencing?
>>    
>>
>
>What was it ? I think you just need (assuming the system to make bootable
>is mounted on /mnt)
>cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/
>installboot /mnt /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
>  
>

# newfs /dev/ld0a
Warning: 3776 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/ld0a: 1048576 sectors in 261 cylinders of 64 tracks, 63 sectors
512.0MB in 12 cyl groups (22 c/g, 43.31MB/g, 10624 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 88800, 177568, 266336, 355104, 443872, 532640, 621408, 710176,
798944, 887712, 976480,

# newfs /dev/ld0d
Warning: 128 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/ld0d: 5225344 sectors in 1296 cylinders of 64 tracks, 63 sectors
2551.4MB in 15 cyl groups (91 c/g, 179.16MB/g, 21504 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 367008, 733984, 1100960, 1467936, 1834912, 2201888, 2568864,
2935840, 3302816, 3669792, 4036768, 4403744, 4770720, 5137696,

# mount /dev/ld0a /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/usr
# mount /dev/ld0d /mnt/usr
# cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/
# installboot /mnt /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
installboot: Opening file system `/mnt' read-write: Is a directory

# umount /dev/ld0d
# umount /dev/ld0a
# installboot /dev/ld0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
installboot: Writing `/dev/ld0a': Read-only file system
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed

# chmod 666 /dev/ld0a
# installboot /dev/ld0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
installboot: Writing `/dev/ld0a': Read-only file system
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed

# installboot /dev/rdl0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs
installboot: Opening file system `/dev/rdl0a' read-write: No such file 
or direcy

# mount /dev/rld0a /mnt
mount: cannot open `/dev/rld0a': Device not configured


Any ideas anyone? I have a plain SCSI card coming... but I'd really like 
to use the RAID card.

Collin