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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:45:20 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting UFS2 on alpha (was: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c)
Message-ID:  <20021011104520.GY17920@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <14845.1034332326@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de> <14845.1034332326@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:32:06PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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 ?

None that I know about.
Maybe someone else on the alpha list knows?

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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