tage@staff.cs.uit.no (Tage Stabell-Kuloe) (02/07/91)
Equipment: mVAX-II, 13 Mb, 2*300 Mb RA80 (compatible) disks. Mach and 4.3BSD sources on line Running Ultrix 3.1 Problem: The only tape-drive I have is connected to a VMS system. The sysadm is unable to read inn the second file on my Mach-tape. The file contains the /-dump. I have the rest. How to bootstrap Mach without the dump ? I have tried : 0) Using chpt to give the disk rigth partitions. Use the Ultrix newfs. Install /ultrixboot together with the 4.3BSD root-partition. Copy in the "Mach/4.3 #5.1 rel 2.5b" kernel and reboot. (The 4.3BSD kernel don't have support for mVAX). The kernel is loaded by /ultrixboot, but is unable to find /etc/init (errno 2), although it is there. Seems as if it can't read the filesystem crated with Ultrix mkfs. 1) Substituting the files in /usr/mdec with those on the 4.3BSD tape. Then use 4.3BSD-mkfs to make the file-system. Now - the filsystem can't be mounted. fsck (Ultrix or 4.3BSD) finds a couple of dirty files (on the newly make filesystem). After the fsck the filesystem can be mounted and 4.3BSD as in 0) Now, the hardware wont even load the boot-progam. >>> b dua1 2.. ?06 HLT INST PC = 00000EE6 Failure. >>> 2) Using the mkfs found on the tape (file 1), with the 4.3BSD files in /usr/mdec. This wreck the partition table in the superblock. Now I'm out of ideas. -- //// Tage Stabell-Kuloe |e-mail : tage@staff.cs.uit.no //// ///Dept. of Computer Science, University|Official : postmaster@cs.uit.no /// //of Tromsoe, N-9000 TROMSOE, NORWAY |Phone/Fax: +47-83-44053/44580 // / "'oe' is '\o{}' in TeX" |#include : <disclaimer.std> /