Larry Snyder (larrys@lexis-nexis.com)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:27:23 -0500 (EST)
Did you put a bsd label on the disk? I've not done it with the option
in fdisk, but going thru a bunch of arithmetic and minlabel works.
I can (painfully) attest to that. I don't think I'd do it again, if there
was another option (and there probably is). One of the utilities deals
in 1K blocks, the other in 512B ones. Also, one starts counting at
cylinder 0, the other at 1. It's simple arithmetic, but before you
write the bsd label, you have to be _absolutely certain_ it agrees with
the geometry as known via fdisk. Once that's out there, swriteboot
/dev/sda /boot/bootlx will work just fine. This box (my primary as200)
works great with it set up that way.
-ls-
Jacek Perry <chrobry@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Sorry to double post (again) but I didn't get responce and I am really
> stack.
>
> The problem I am having is with trying to make hard drisk bootable
> with aboot. I can make floppy work no problems.. but harddrive no.
>
> I tried to use the swriteboot command as in
>
> swriteboot /dev/sda /boot/bootlx
> and
> swriteboot /dev/sda1 /boot/bootlx
>
> but both of those commands give me an error saying that the drive
> label is corrupt :(
> This is new harddisk, and I reinstalled the RedHat 5.2 twice now. I
> even tried differant aboot but still no luck.
> My disk is partitioned in a way that the Howto indicated I should
> partitioned it (the sda1 starts at 3rd cilinder)
>
> So what else can I do? I read the howto, but no luck :(
>
>
> Thanks
> Jacek Perry
>
>
>
>
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