Subject: Re: AdvFS??
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/17/2000 18:05:38
I have access to DU. You're in SF, right, with that marvey address?
Shouldn't you just boot genvmunix instead of vmunix for your DU 4.0 disk? That
should see the AS200 fine. Make sure you don't boot multiuser to save yourself
some grief, i.e.:

b dka0 -fi genvmunix -fl ''



> Sorry to bother the group with this marginal (at best) problem...
> 
> A friend of mine had an old 3000 running DU 4.0, whose power supply
> just bit the dust, and who needs to recover some data on an AdvFS filesystem.
> I've got an AS200 running NetBSD, that I've used to recover the data
> on the UFS filesystems, but I can't boot the DU kernel on his disk
> due to an unsupported processor type.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions, or a DU kernel I can boot just long
> enough to copy the data off?  
> 
> thanks,
> +j
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz
>