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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:32:06 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <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) 
Message-ID:  <14845.1034332326@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:01:24 %2B0200." <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de> 

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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 ?

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