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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:08:34 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: booting UFS2 on alpha (was: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c)
Message-ID:  <20021011130834.A12041@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021011104520.GY17920@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:45:20PM %2B0200
References:  <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de> <14845.1034332326@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021011104520.GY17920@cicely8.cicely.de>

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On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:45:20PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 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?

I'll try to find out. Might take a while.

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|   / o / /_  _   				wilko@FreeBSD.org
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