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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu>
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

Thanks to Elizabeth Harvey-Forsythe, Robert R. Collins, Allan Rollow,
Allan Davis and Dr. Thomas Blinn.

When I repartitioned the disk with the 5.0 install CD disk configuration
tool, it apparently puts down ufs boot blocks and not advfs blocks. I
needed to boot backup with the install CD and get to a shell, whereupon
I preserved the disk label: disklabel -r dsk0 > /tmp/label

and then relabelled the disk, installing the advfs boot blocks:
disklabel -r -R -t advfs dsk0 /tmp/label

After that, the system booted up just fine.

Thanks again,
Dirk

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote:

> I'm trying to upgrade a system by cloning it from another system.
>
> I need to install 5.0A, but I've lost my 5.0A install disk and so I dumped
> the root filesystem from a running 5.0A system and booted up the machine
> to be upgraded with a 5.0 install disk. I needed to repartition the
> system disk and I used the graphical disk manager tool to re-partition
> and then I opened a shell and created an advfs domain and single (root)
> fileset and mounted that and then restored the root file system I'd
> backed up from the running 5.0A system and edited necessary system
> configuration files and then wanted to boot up the upgrade from the
> genvmunix to single user, but when it boots, it loads the kernel and
> then gives me this error:
> can't open osf_boot
>
> I searched the archives and I've seen posts inquiring of this error, but
> no replies for the solution.
>
> Any help ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dirk
>

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