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From: wwtz@ciba-geigy.ch (Wolfgang Wetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Booting problem
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 6 Jul 90 15:11:44 GMT
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In article <9638@brazos.Rice.edu> ittc!fbresz@uunet.uu.net writes:

>Sounds like the disk is missing the infamous boot block, no problem.
>Check out the installboot command: I have used it a few times.  On 4.0.3
>try
>
>cd /usr/kvm/mdec
>installboot -vlt /boot bootsd /dev/rsd2a
>
>try 'man installboot' to find out exactly what it does Note pre 4.0
>systems the installboot behaves slightly differently.

If you really want to install the bootblock, then do:

cd /usr/kvm/mdec
installboot -vl /boot bootsd /dev/rsd2a

(I ran into this one once myself when I was wandering why the #$%^ it did
not work ;-) )

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