Subject: installboot doesn't seem to work
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@newhouse.bayarea.net>
List: current-users
Date: 12/13/1997 11:22:39
Ok, so dumb me, I missed the installboot separation from disklabel
for the i386 platform. Now that I'm using installboot I seem to
have a problem installing the boot blocks on a new disk. The IDE
disk is labeled as follows:
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
disk: wdc33100
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 6136
total sectors: 6185088
rpm: 5200
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
7 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 202545 63 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 0*- 200*)
b: 1033200 202608 swap # (Cyl. 201 - 1225)
c: 6185088 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 6135)
d: 6185088 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 6135)
e: 2797200 1235808 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1226 - 4000)
f: 1611792 4033008 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 4001 - 5599)
g: 540288 5644800 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 5600 - 6135)
As suggested in the man page as root I do:
/usr/mdec/installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/wd0a
I get no error messages BUT, I cannot boot the disk. Back in the
"disklabel -B wd0" days a disk labelled with this same disktab entry
would boot ok. What am I do wrong?
TIA,
Paul