making xd1 bootable?
Brian H. Powell
brian at natinst.com
Sun May 7 06:06:18 AEST 1989
I had a bad weekend. If you want the details, I'd be happy to send you a
story about it.
Among other things, I was trying to clone our boot disk (xd0) onto xd1.
After I set things up (ran installboot, etc.), I halted. In the monitor,
I set up the eeprom to boot off of xd(0,1,0). Fine. I booted, and it got
vmunix off of xd1, as expected. But it suddenly decided to use the root
and swap off of xd0:
Apr 29 11:00:03 natinst vmunix: root on xd0a fstype 4.2
Apr 29 11:00:03 natinst vmunix: swap on xd0b fstype spec size 20803K
Apr 29 11:00:03 natinst vmunix: dump on xd0b fstype spec
I looked through the documentation, but couldn't find anything that
explained what I was doing wrong. (Sun doesn't describe how to make an
alternate boot disk very well.)
I tried the monitor command "b -a", and pointed it to xd1 for root and
swap, and that worked fine. Unfortunately, that information didn't stick,
so the next boot used xd0 for root and swap.
I eventually resorted to changing the drive id of xd1 to 0, and xd0 to 1.
I reset things to boot off of xd(0,0,0), and it worked fine.
What have I done wrong?
Brian H. Powell National Instruments Corp.
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