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From: matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Now I'm really p*ssed.
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Date: 19 Apr 91 00:19:27 GMT
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Damn.

I recently posted having problems getting a Fujitsu 2263 booting after a
format with Rory Bolt's formatter program and a BuildDisk on NeXTStep 2.1.
The problem was it didn't have a recognizable blk0 boot block (unknown binary
format or something like that).

It wasn't the Fujitsu 2263.  It's doing the same damn thing on my 2261.

Has ANYONE successfully done a BuildDisk after upgrading to NeXTStep 2.1?

And, how the HELL can I fix this problem?  Now I have it set so I can boot
off my internal drive (must still have a boot block there, and I booted from
floppy <if anyone hasn't gotten that program from the archives, DO SO, it'll
save your life>, mounted the drives, copied sdmach from the external to the
internal, and told it to boot of sd(1,0,0) -- it finds sdmach and goes on
booting off the external after that), but that's an ugly hack and I get some
funny errors.

Speaking of errors, I get panics frequently now when I try to shut down, and
it just as frequently fails to unmount the root partition.

Just what the h*ll is happening to my system, anyway?
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