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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!eur.nl!cs.few.eur.nl!pk From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) Subject: Re: [NetBS-sparc] Where can I get boot programms? Message-ID: <1994Jun11.195259.17445@cs.few.eur.nl> Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam References: <Cr7AE2.B3@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 19:52:59 GMT Lines: 17 In <Cr7AE2.B3@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> bcolbert@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Brad Colbert) writes: > Hi folks, > We just installed NetBSD 0.9a-sparc onto a SUN IPC. We need to > repartition sd0. We have NetBSD bootable from sd1. Can I use NetBSD > disklabel to repartition sd0 and make it bootable? We found > no boot program in /usr/mdec. Should we just copy out the boot > program in / on sd0 and copy it back when it's repartitioned? > Will that work? No. You must use the SunOS bootblocks and utilities to create a bootable partition. Just follow the instructions in the SunOS man pages. And in case you should stumble across the bootcode in <sys/arch/sparc/stand>, don't be tempted to use it (unless you seek to learn the ins and outs of fsck's -b option), and it wouldn;t do the job on older bootproms (like those found on an IPC) anyway.