ams@flairvax.UUCP (Allan M. Schiffman) (03/01/84)
I'm having trouble disk booting the following configuration and 4.2: Vax 780 with 2 16K memory controllers An Rp06 on Massbus #0 as unit 2 SI 9900 SMD Controller configured as Massbus #2 Four Fujitsu Eagles configured on said SI 9900, unit 3 only being used for 4.2 -- the other 3 disks have a 4.1 filesystem for during the day. Things boot from the RP06 just fine; even a system built with root and swap on the eagle. But I can't boot 4.2 off the eagle directly. E.g.: : hp(19,0)sivmunix not a directory sivmunix not found # try again... : hp(19,0)sivmunix hp error: (cyl,trk,sec)=(28350,6,16) ds=150700<ATA,ERR,MOL,DPR,DRY,VV> er1=2000<IAE> er2=0 mr1=0 mr2=0 super block read error Now, mind you, the directory on this drive is just fine -- when I boot from the RP06 it is perfectly willing to run with the eagle as root. I built the eagle partition with newfs -- which claimed that it wrote the boot block... This must be happening in /sys/stand/(boot.c,sys.c,hp.c), but what's going wrong? Maybe I should try using /sys/stand/hp.old.c and rebuild boot? As long as we're at it, why aren't the famous SI ECC patches to the hp.c driver equally needed in /sys/stand/hp.c? Allan M. Schiffman Fairchild Lab for AI Research, Palo Alto (415)858-4258 ARPA: Schiffman@SRI-KL UUCP: ...decwrl!flairvax!ams