From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 11 3:32:14 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9407137B401; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 03:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A593F43EB3; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 03:32:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9BAW64B014846; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:32:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: booting UFS2 on alpha (was: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:01:24 +0200." <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:32:06 +0200 Message-ID: <14845.1034332326@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes: >>>>boot dka400 >(boot dka400.4.0.6.0 -flags 0) >block 0 of dka400.4.0.6.0 is not a valid boot block >bootstrap failure > >This one is my biggest problem. >SRM doesn't accept the disklabel. >Once I dd the first 512 bytes from an old disk SRM is happy. >I compared them with hexdump, but wasn't able to find the reason. Is there some place which documents what the requirements for being a valid boot-block is ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message