SUMMARY: can't open osf_boot

From: Dirk Kleinhesselink (dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu)
Date: 04/23/03

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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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