martin@sporobolus.NREL.ColoState.EDU (Martin Fowler) (10/24/90)
I'm in the process of recovering from a trashed / and /usr on our R80 (rb80)
disk. We are running 4.3BSD (from Mt. Xinu) on a VAX 11/730 (yes there are
still some around!). The disk has been reformatted, and I am attempting to
newfs the root partition.
Problem: newfs want's to use /usr/mdec/{rbboot,bootrb} to install in sectors
0-15 of the drive, but these files are not there. I have checked old dump
tapes, and the source distribution, and still cannot find boot code specific
to the rb80. I suppose the boot program for the RL02 (same controller - idc)
could be hacked to work for the R80, but I would rather not have to deal with
that. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Please e-mail, as I will not be taking the time to read news until this
machine is up.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Martin <martin@poa.nrel.colostate.edu>martin@sporobolus.NREL.ColoState.EDU (Martin Fowler) (10/25/90)
Yes, there *are* more 730's out there! Thanks to Michael Enkelis (tektronix!vice!michaele) for his answer: >ANSWER: there is none. >The 730 boots from the console tu58 tape and does not need a >boot program loaded onto the R80/RL02 disk. The newfs program >is a general purpose script, and trys to make a disk hardware bootable >even though the 730 can't hardware boot a disk. >Soo, ignore the error, and all will be fine. >(I have a 730 running BSD 4.3 on a RA80 after my R80 died) Martin <martin@poa.nrel.colostate.edu>