Re: Installing bootblocks on 3.2 snapshot

Hugh Graham wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:56:20PM -0600, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> 
>>>Try the (known working) bootblocks from: xxx
>>
>>Didn't work. I still get the same messages. I'll try installing 3.1, but 
>>maybe I need to try wiping the first few blocks on the disk. I did 
>>notice that the BSD part of the disk started at something like block 
>>1153 on the Fujutsu and 10?? on the RZ57
>>
>>
>>>Anything special about the drives?
>>
>>One drive is a plain DEC RZ57, which used to have an OpenVMS 7.2 install 
>>on it, and the other is a Fujitsu M2494ES, which used to be in a Wintel box.
> 
> 
> Hmm, yes, do try dd'ing over at least the first few cylinders of the
> disk (just let it run for a while), then reboot and try an install
> with no possibility of in-kernel baggage about a previous label.

> 
>>>It may be worth testing if boot.mop (once loaded over the network) is
>>>able to load a kernel off the drive. At the console chevron enter
>>>"boot esa0", and then at the openbsd boot prompt try "boot sd(0)bsd",
>>>or "boot sd(1,0)bsd". This is a longshot, and I'm not sure if it ever
>>>worked reliably with scsi, so a negative result won't tell much.
>>
>>It says:
>>
>>getdisklabel: no disk label
>>nfs_open: must mount first.
>>Boot failed: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> I can't remember ever going from network to scsi successfully,
> although scsi to network or network to mscp do seem to work.
> Something to investigate...

Yes, Network->scsi definately doesn't work.

>>It used to run 3.0 perfectly well, but I thought I'd try VMS (bleck), 
>>which required removing all the BSD stuff. I can try installing 3.0 or 
>>3.1 on the machine and see what happens, which is what I'll do next.
>>
> 
> If it's less trouble than downloading then try the dd thing first.

I pretty much have 3.2 snap and 3.1 release on my NFS server, so I 
started the install even before I sent the message. I have a feeling 
that the install won't fix it, so if it doesn't boot I'll just do the dd 
thing and try again. I'm just about done the install (for some reason I 
decided to install X, and I've been having intermittent trouble with my 
coax segment... It's taking a while =)


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Sean Cavanaugh - Email: seanc at unixgeeks period ca