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From: richard@cs.ua.oz.au
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Subject: Re: SCSI disk and installboot problems...
Keywords: Software
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Date: 23 Jul 90 05:58:11 GMT
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In article <10110@brazos.Rice.edu>, jto@ousrvr.oulu.fi (Jarkko
Oikarinen) writes:
|>
|>But making the new disk bootable using
|>installboot seemed to be impossible; it always flamed back with a message
|>'not a superblock'. Why is this ?
|>
|>The command I used was something like:
|>'installboot /mnt/boot bootsd /dev/sd4a'
|>(the root partition of the new disk was mounted to /mnt).

I've had similar of the same problem, I found 2 things that I was doing
wrong..

a) Like you, I used; '/dev/sd?a', where it should be the RAW device, ie:
   /dev/rsd?a
b) Use ALL the options to 'installboot' to see just how far it gets (ie:
   installboot -vlt ..).

Sometimes that helps get to the problem...

Hope that is of some help...

Richard Siggs
ACSnet: richard@cs.ua.oz.au