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From: steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: bootable disk on hp 9000
Message-ID: <7370260@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 90 18:08:39 GMT
References: <1990Nov19.020543.26379@rducky.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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In answer to:
} What steps do I take to format a new disk and make it bootable?
I wrote:
| Create appropriate device files (depends on:  S300 or S800; HP-IB, SCSI, 
| or ...; etc.), attach the disk, and run newfs on it.  newfs defaults to
| making a bootable disk, unless the -n option is specified.  See newfs(1m)
| in the HP-UX Reference.

As one of my colleagues pointed out to me, I left out an important step.
You will need to run mediainit on the disk before running newfs.  See
mediainit(1) in the HP-UX Reference.  You can often find guidelines for
the appropriate interleave factor (-i option of mediainit) in /etc/disktab,
if the documentation with the disk doesn't give enough information.

						Regards, Steve taylor

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