How I Can update the boot blocks ?
I do not know how to do it.

Here is hte dmesg output:

NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (GENERIC) #1: Tue Sep 12 09:14:10 PDT 2000
    matt@cheetah.local:/other/vax/kobj/GENERIC

VAXstation 4000/60
cpu: KA46
cpu: turning on floating point chip
total memory = 32372 KB
avail memory = 27020 KB
using 430 buffers containing 1720 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
vsbus0 at mainbus0
vsbus0: 32K entry DMA SGMAP at PA 0x560000 (VA 0x80560000)
vsbus0: interrupt mask 0
le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 770 ipl 15 maskbit 1 buf 0x0-0xffff
le0: address 08:00:2b:2a:cb:6b
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 124 ipl 15 maskbit 4
dz0: 4 lines
lkc0 at dz0
asc0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 774 ipl 15 maskbit 0
asc0: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 6
scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
probe(asc0:0:0): max sync rate 6.25MB/s
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ29B    (C) DEC, 0016> SCSI2
0/direct fixed
sd0: 4091 MB, 3708 cyl, 20 head, 113 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8380080 sectors
probe(asc0:3:0): max sync rate 5.00MB/s
sd1 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <DEC, RZ25     (C) DEC, 0700> SCSI2
0/direct fixed
sd1: 406 MB, 1476 cyl, 9 head, 62 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 832527 sectors
boot device: sd1
root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
root file system type: ffs


thanks

Rick


On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Chris Tribo wrote:

> 
> 	Sounds like a kvm_mkdb problem. Did you update your bootblocks and
> boot loader (using installboot in /usr/mdec)? Can you post your dmesg
> output?
> 
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, NetBSD mailing list wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I installed the new ALPHA2 snapshot overwriting my old ALPHA.
> > 
> > I have a problem with ps.
> > It writes me this warning
> > 
> > ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory
> > 
> > and it does not display the TT in the output
> > 
> > mariah# ps -auwx
> > ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ  RSS TT STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
> > root   0  0.0  8.9   0 2880 ?? DLs   3:07PM 0:00.03 (swapper)
> > root 285  0.0  2.7 464  876 ?? S     3:17PM 0:02.02 -tcsh 
> > rj45 281  0.0  2.6 452  840 ?? Is    3:17PM 0:00.51 -tcsh 
> > root 279  0.0  2.1 308  672 ?? S     3:16PM 0:04.78 /usr/local/sb
> > 
> > How I ca nfix this ???
> > thanks
> > 
> > Rick
> > 
> > 
> 
>