On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, der Mouse wrote:

> Now, it's possible the machine in question has a disk that has an
> old-paradigm first-level boot on it which have never been replaced.

	I think this "thread" is still based on my original problems.  I 
have a SUN0207 drive which was formatted clean when I received it.  There 
was nothing on this disk (or so I thought) when I got it.  At any rate, I 
have to use "newfs -O" on my Sparc (4/110, SUN4) in order for the system 
to boot properly.

> to be part of the PROM boot sequence.  I suppose it's also possible
> that the PROMs truly do care about the filesystem, but that seems
> unlikely.

	That's what I thought was the problem, but now that you've 
explained it, it doesn't seem to make sense.

> It's also possible that the disk somehow managed to acquire a native
> NetBSD disklabel instead of a SunOS disklabel; the PROMs will get upset
> if they don't see a disklabel at least minimally compatible with SunOS.

	I did create the disklabel with NetBSD, so that, too, could've 
been the problem.

	Anyway, things are working properly now that I did use the "-O" 
option on 'newfs', so I can't complain.

Mike.

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