>"Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.org> writes:
>> I've come into a perplexing problem...I'm trying to switch my NetBSD setup
>> to a different hard drive. I installed all new tarballs (1.4 release), went
>> through /etc by hand, transferred the entire /home directory, & have a copy
>> of my htdocs on it. I did the "/usr/mdec/installboot /dev/rsd1c
>> /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs" and did copy /usr/mdec/boot over to /mnt.
>
>Did you by any chance edit the disklabel with 'disklabel -r ...' on
>the second disk after running the installboot?
>
>that installboot command should have done the right thing, but there's
>a known bug in 'disklabel -r' that can clobber boot blocks....

Unfortunately, no, I've never done a disklabel -r in my life...I low-level
formatted the drive with FWB's hard disk toolkit on my Mac, ran it through
a gamut of tests, & then hooked it up to the alpha. I then disklabel -i'd
it, chose the arbitrary 3400000 as leaving plenty for swap, & used a
calculator for the swapsize. After the disklabel, I did a newfs on sd1a, &
then proceeded t fill up the drive with the 1.4 release tarballs. After
unpacking them, I tried doing the installboot stuff.

>FYI: the *'s (partitions unalined w.r.t. cylinder boundaries) are
>almost certainly _not_ the cause of your problem.

OK, I was just fishing for diffs between the two disklabels ;).


If nothing enlightening comes along by tomorrow afternoon, I'll just
re-reformat & start from scratch...I just .tgz'd my /mnt so I don't have to
go by & hand-edit /etc again just in case :).


Thanks for all help,
Mike
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