Subject: Re: how to recover a lost S(t)unOS disklabel
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, ggm@labtam.oz.au>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/10/1995 09:57:15
> At the end of installboot, you get a (warning?) that the device is
> busy. When you try a boot at the ok prompt, you get checksum failure
> and joy departeth toward heaven.

Since installboot wants to write to the raw disk device you must first
put the system in `security level' 0. Otherwise the system will deny access.
The canonical way to do this is to go into single user mode.

-pk