Subject: Re: install questions
To: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/1998 14:15:05
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
The programs in /usr/mdec is the primary boot programs (bootblocks).
The secondary stage boot program is a normal program residing in /
$ ls -l /boot
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin  31364 Jul  2  1997 /boot

-- Ragge