bob@kahala.hig.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) (12/23/88)
Bad news: you've somehow trashed your root partition; but (good news!)
you have a recent level 0 dump. You turn to Chapter 7 of the System
Administration manual, page 103 or thereabouts, and start the procedures
listed there. But, nothing works right... Have faith; it's not your
fault that nothing works right at this point, the procedures in the manual
are both wrong and misleading.
Before this happens to you, go through and pencil in the following changes
to pages 103 & 104 in Chapter 7 ("Regular Maintenance") in your SunOS4.0
System Administration Procedures manual:
In step 2:
change "st(0,0,4)" to "st(0,0,2)"
change "st(0,0,5)" to "st(0,0,3)"
change "-as" to "-asw"
and, in subsequent steps:
change all occurances of "/usr/etc" to "/etc"peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (01/05/89)
bob@kahala.hig.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) writes: >But, nothing works right... Have faith; it's not your >fault that nothing works right at this point, the procedures in the manual >are both wrong and misleading. Also, on page 104, step 9, the procedure for installing the boot block is wrong. The example is be # installboot /boot bootsd /dev/sd0a It's wrong two different ways: 1) The /boot is misleading in the context of the examples. It should be /mnt/boot because /dev/sd0a is mounted on /mnt. 2) installboot only works with raw devices. It should use /dev/rsd0a. The way the installboot example should read is: # installboot /mnt/boot bootsd /dev/rsd0a -- Leonard J. Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computer Center Voice: (616) 387-5469 Kalamazoo, MI 49008