arosen@eagle.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) (04/17/88)
I'm trying to install 4.3 on an 11/750 with 1 ra81 and 1 tu80. I've
got tape 1 of 1 on the tu80 and the 4.3 distribution cassette in the
tu58. When I try to copy the mini-root from tape to disk, I get:
From: ts(0,1)
To: ra(0,1)
Copy completed: 446 records copied
From:
The installation instructions say it should report 205 records copied.
Otherwise, there are no errors in the copy. The tape moves, the ready
light on the ra81 flickers and everything.
I then ^P back to the >>>, type "B DDA0" and run 'boot'. It comes back
with
Boot
:
as one would hope. I type in "ra(0,1)vmunix", and after a few seconds
I get
00000034 07
FFFFFFFE 15
>>>
Trying to boot 'ra(0,1)foo' gives the same error code, so it looks like
it's saying vmunix isn't on the partition. Any ideas why copy is copying
446 records instead of 205, and what it might be copying?
To workaround the problem, we're probably going to install the ra81 on
another 750 already running 4.3, newfs partition a, copy / onto it and
then boot into single-user where we can build a custom kernel and load
in the rest of the system. But we'd prefer to through the mini-root so
we don't have to bounce the other 750.
Any help would be appreciated.
Andy Rosen | arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I
ULowell, Box #3031 | ulowell!arosen | learned how to make it
Lowell, Ma 01854 | | talk" -Thunder Road
RD in '88 - The way it should bearosen@eagle.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) (04/20/88)
In article <6287@swan.ulowell.edu> (I) wrote: >[Trying to bring up 4.3 on a 750; copy reports 446 records (not 205) copied >and/so mini-root won't boot.] Thanks to those who replied. Mostly what was suggested was that we had a cross between 4.2 and 4.3 disk/tape/tu58 or some such. And since Berkeley changed the partition sizes from one to the other, we were having problems. Unfortunately, none of this helped. We never ran 4.2, so we didn't have 4.2 tapes, and the 750 ran VMS before we got it, so the the disk was effectively blank. The problem turned out to be a bad tape (9 track) [The tape's are almost 2 years old now]. I remade tape 1 of 3 (with localized buildmini/get/maketape scripts), copied the mini-root from that and it worked ok. Now I just have to build a generic kernel to boot (the 750s have very different configurations). Once this is going I get to try the 11/730..... Thanks again, Andy Rosen | arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I ULowell, Box #3031 | ulowell!arosen | learned how to make it Lowell, Ma 01854 | | talk" -Thunder Road RD in '88 - The way it should be