Re: bootloader issue

Oh yeah, that's an issue for sure, I should have realized.  I will try this 
and report back tonight (~12hrs).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> David Ross wrote:
>
>> On boot, I get:
>> NetBSD/atari secondary bootloader ($Revision: 1.12 $)
>>
>> |
>>
>> That pipe is the little spinning bar.  It spins a little but freezes 
>> pretty
>> quickly at the pipe.  The drive light stays off after the freeze.
>
> Ah, installboot(8) doesn't replace /boot.atari on the target disk
> so I guess your SCSI disk still has stock tertiary /boot.atari
> extracted from base.tgz in daily snapshot, which doesn't have fixes yet.
>
> For workaround you have to replace it with a patched one in my
> custom sysinst.fs manually. You can do it on sysinst prompt as:
>
> # mount /dev/sd0a /targetroot
> # cp /usr/mdec/boot.atari /targetroot
> # umount /targetroot
> # reboot
>
> or so.
>
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>