problem with boot0cfg on a twe?
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Thu Jun 9 13:10:17 GMT 2005
>> very -current
>>
>> # boot0cfg -B -d 1 -s 1 -v twed0
>> boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/twed0: No such file or directory
>>
>> # boot0cfg -B -d 1 -s 1 -v twe0
>> boot0cfg: read /dev/twe0: Operation not supported by device
>>
>> # ls -l /dev/twed0
>> crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 76 Jun 8 23:32 /dev/twed0
>>
>> # df
>> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>> /dev/twed0s1a 253678 67506 165878 29% /
>> devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
>> /dev/twed0s1d 126702 7682 108884 7% /var
>> /dev/twed0s1e 126702 192 116374 0% /var/spool
>> /dev/twed0s1f 28341292 2393116 23680874 9% /usr
>> /dev/twed0s1g 4058062 54 3733364 0% /usr/home
>> /dev/twed0s1h 63256 858 57338 1% /root
>> /dev/twed1s1e 961291472 536501578 347886578 61% /data
>> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
>> /dev/md0 126702 14 116552 0% /tmp
>>
>> and the current man page for boot0cfg implies that i can install
>> boot0 - crt only
>> boot0sio - sio only
>>
>> i have many systems with /boot.config having -P that seem to be
>> willing to go either way. what am i not understanding?
>
> I think the problem is that you can't write onto the disk when you have
> it in use (for 5.4 at least). It just gives the wrong error-message.
> I had the same problem - booting from CD usually lets you apply boot0cfg.
not very useful for remote admin. why should i not be able to write it?
> But my real problem is that I can only boot the PC from the SuSE 9.2 CD
> ! (2*120GB as RAID1). When I boot from the array, I get a kind of
> endless loop of pre-boot panic or just an endless beep at the F1-promt,
> depending if I have booteasy or not.
>
> When I boot from the SuSE9.2 CD, it will recognize that I have a Unix-OS
> already installed and boot from HD as default.
> That always works.
> I have 3 identical PCs with this problem.
yechh!
i can boot this sucker. though i have to manually go through
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(1,a)kernel
boot: 1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader
which is what i want to fix
randy
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