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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Subject: [TUHS] Bringing up any 4.3BSD on a MicroVAX without tape....
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:36:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510200736.j9K7aqga003340@skeeve.com> (raw)

Wasn't there an "installboot" program that told the bootblock where
to find the /boot file?

Boy was it a lllloooonnnngggg time ago that I dealt with this stuff.

Arnold

> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:28:31 -0400
> From: robertdkeys at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Bringing up any 4.3BSD on a MicroVAX without tape....
> To: msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG, tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
>
>  The /boot is there, so it is somewhere between the bootblocks
> and /boot that the connection is lost.  The /boot is apparently
> not correctly found.  But, it is there......
>  
> Bob Keys
>  
> -----Original Message-----
>
> > The problem is that it won't install boot blocks that work.
> > None of the raboot/rdboot/bootra/bootrd combos get
> > any farther than the cryptic "loading boot" message.
>
> The "loading boot" message comes from the bootblock code and indicates
> that the bootblocks are good and working.  If it stops there, it means
> that you are missing the /boot file in the root filesystem (that's what
> it's loading).
>
> MS



             reply	other threads:[~2005-10-20  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-20  7:36 Aharon Robbins [this message]
2005-10-20 15:04 ` robertdkeys
2005-10-21  7:52   ` Jochen Kunz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-21 12:31 Jose R Valverde
2005-10-20 16:57 Michael Sokolov
2005-10-19  3:52 Michael Sokolov
2005-10-19  4:25 ` Gregg Levine
2005-10-19 17:28 ` robertdkeys
2005-10-15 15:49 [TUHS] Ancient unixes Gregg C Levine
2005-10-19  3:00 ` [TUHS] Bringing up any 4.3BSD on a MicroVAX without tape robertdkeys

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