Summary: AS1200 : Boot help!

[James Kurtenbach <jwkurtenbach sysmatrix net>]

Thanks to all who responded!!

It turns out that sector 1 and 2 need to be available but not partitioned. 

I was able to do this in Disk Druid by NOT selecting "new".  Instead I 
double clicked the free space and created a partition using sectors 1 
and 2.  I then created the rest of my partitions.  Finally as a last 
step I deleted the partition that used sectors 1 and 2.  This allowed 
boot loader to be installed on sectors 1 and 2.

Thanks again!

Jim

James Kurtenbach 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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