> On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:
> 
> > The problem arrives when I try to boot from this disk.  I am not sure 
> > if bootstraping binaries were actually written after i have run
> > 
> >         installboot ufsboot bootxx /dev/rsd0c
> > 
> > because when I change booting device from le0 to sd(0,0,0) I get many 
> > different error messages from the ROM, from illegal instructions to 

On Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:53:04 -0500 (EST), Reginald J. Reed replied:

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that if you want to boot 
> from sd(0,0,0) that the correct installboot command would be:
> 
> 	installboot ufsboot bootxx /dev/rsd0a
> 
> since rsd0a is the raw device for partition 0.

I tried using /dev/rsd0a before and it did not work either.

The rsd0c stuff is from some man page I read when I was making the 
first attempts.  Anyway, from somewhere in a 386BSD FAQ, NetBSD has 
among its partitions two with special meanings: one for the whole 
disk and one for NetBSD's space on the disk.  These special 
partitions are assigned the letters 'c' and 'd' (I don't remember 
which letter for which partition), so I think it would make sense to 
save bootstraping code into the "partition" which defines NetBSD's 
total share of the disk.

Um abraco.
        Pappires

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