SUMMARY: booting off another disk

From: Marty Leisner (leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 16 1992 - 01:02:20 CST


I don't think I ever sent out a summary...

Here was my initial query:
        I have a Sparcstation with 2 207 Mbyte disks.

        On the second disk, I want to have / and swap.
        On the first disk, I have a smaller /, swap and usr (I always want to use the same /usr).

        I recall older suns let me boot off other devices via >b sd(0,1,0)

        However, these ROMS don't like that...

        I tried all types of combinations...and it has to be exactly right...

        I have rom rev 2.2...

        When I try >b /sbus/esp/sd@1,0

        it tells me: the file just loaded and returns with the boot prompt...

        Is it a problem to break of / and /usr between disks?

Thanks to:
Adam Shostack adam@bwnmr4.harvard.edu
Adrian Booth abcc@DIALix.oz.au
Jeff Nieusma nieusma@atlantis.stortek.com
Matt Goheen
Dave_G._Kruse.sd@xerox.co
Robert Brown robert@verdix.com
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>
abcomp!yves@relay.eu.net (Yves Hardy
Rick Pluta pluta@cgc9.eda.mke.ab.com
reardon@sws.sinet.slb.com (Bob Reardon Maildrop 3F - x4794)
John Vogtle John_Vogtle:wbst147
bmskc!moe!paul@uunet.uu.net (Paul Evan Matz)
matthew@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Matthew Donaldson)
Steven Lee steve@seattle.avcom.com
katzung@lisle.swissbank.com (Brian Katzung)
Peter Samuel <peters@megadata.mega.oz.au>
polaris1!support!lv@uunet.uu.net (Luis Vallejo)

Some different opinions, sun roms generally have changed with time.

The major things I found out:
Do a >boot diskn to boot over disk n...

There is a magic program installboot (in /usr/kvm/mdec/installboot)
The -v option (supposedly) just prints out what it will do

Of course, source would be very nice... ;-)

Let me know if you want a complete summary...it's long.

marty
leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom
"People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led" -- H. Ross Perot



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