Re: AS1200 : Boot help!

["Ted Goodridge, Jr." <tedgoodridgejr acm org>]

it's really easiest to use fdisk to partition an BSD label disk in my  
experience.  You need to make sure you start at sector 3 with yoru first  
partition, and not use sectors 1 and 2 on the disk you want to boot from.   
These sectors will be used by the bootloader when you install it.

It's a pain, but that's how you get it to work.

Hope this helps

On Sat, 14 May 2005 17:26:23 -0500, James Kurtenbach  
<jwkurtenbach sysmatrix net> wrote:

> OK, more details.   Disk Druid complained about not enough space at the
> beginning of the disk for the boot partition. It says to make sure it
> has at least 3 meg free.   The disk is a 9gig dec drive (10krpm,
> rz1d).   I have used the disk for vms and other os's before.   Do I need
> to do a low level format or something?
>
>
>
> James Kurtenbach wrote:
>
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I have a As1200 that I installed the alpha core.  Disk Druid
> > complained about some incompatibility during the install, but the
> > install completed ok (or so I thought).
> >
> > The problem, when I try to boot from the disk (dka0 on the ncr 810
> > csci controller) it complains that there is no boot block.
> > >>> boot dka0
> >
> > Can someone give a newbie a hand with the boot command or the docs on
> > how to do it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim



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