Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:39:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@pluto.plutotech.com, imp@pluto.plutotech.com Subject: Re: installing bootblocks... Message-ID: <13835.61076.43477.474590@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809252004120.845-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> References: <199809251900.NAA07048@panzer.plutotech.com> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809252004120.845-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson writes: > > > > - or, figure out how to switch the root partition from a Digital Unix > > format to a FreeBSD format. Before, I tried something like this from > > single user mode: > > > > - mount /dev/da1h / > > "specified partition doesn't match mounted partition" I tend to install *BSD/alpha by booting DU diskless, newfs'ing the appropriate partitions & untarring the dist. I run into the above problem because Digital UNIX handles special files in some wacky way, so that special files change major/minor numbers when viewed by DU or *BSD. The easiest thing to do is to boot a normal kernel via bootp, then NFS mount a fs where where root is mapped to 0 via NFS. Then mount root r/w, cd into /dev, delete everything but console (0 is always 0 :), and rebuild your devices. Something like this: # ifconfig de0 xxxx up # mount w.x.y.z:/export/root /mnt # cd /mnt # mkdir dev # cd dev # cp /dev/MAKEDEV . # sh MAKEDEV all # mount -u ./da0a / # cd /dev # rm -rf [a-b]* [d-z]* # sh MAKEDEV all # < populate root > ... Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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