Re: Old indy2 rendered unbootable... (long post)
From: gprs (dbishop_at_ehvert.com)
Date: 01/30/04
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Date: 30 Jan 2004 05:34:39 -0800
roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in message news:<bv9jbv$df5$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <769f2166.0401281116.5c38637a@posting.google.com>,
> gprs <dbishop@ehvert.com> wrote:
> : A friend of mine gave me an old Indigo2 with Irix 5.3 loaded on it.
>
> :System Diagnostics renders:
> :"No SystemPartition set"
>
> Somehow you wrote over the label :(
>
> :i found efslook and it has allowed me to see the contents of the CD.
> :There appear to be 3 areas on the CD with readable stuff. the first
> :one has the following content;
>
> :unix.IP12
>
> :the second has the following content:
>
> :CDgrelnotes
>
> :and the third has the same contents as the first.
>
> Boot CDs only have one useful partition, partition 0, which is proceeded
> by the volume header, which is not in a real filesystem format. Partition
> 10 overlaps everything so that the entire disk may be addressed.
>
>
> :1) the CD that i have is from IRIX 5.2. Can i safely use this
> :mini-root/fx to restore my disk label?
>
> Yes, but you will have problems until you figure out how big the
> old root partition was, how big the swap partition was, and whether
> there was a unified partition or a split root and usr partition.
>
>
> :the command i have been given is:
> :boot -f dksc(x,y,z)sashARCS dksc(x,y,w) stand/fx.ARCS --x
>
> Probably fx.ARCS is in the volume header directly, and you
> can probably call it out without using sash:
>
> boot -f dksc(x,y,z)fx.ARCS
>
>
> :2) Should the above fail, which files do i need to get off the CD to
> :get the indy reloaded with the IRIX 5.2?
>
> Lots. Most everything (but some stuff is optional.)
k, i know that this has been discussed and i though the general
concensus was that the Irix inst CD can be read using any CDROM drive.
Alas, i simply cannot mount this thing in Linux. It just keeps
telling me something about EFS not supporting 512k blocks. wineffs
doesn't want to play and efslook is pretty painful. Is there
something that i am missing?
Maybe i could remove the harddrive and put only a CDROM in the
machine, then use the mini-root to copy the files to a Linux box??
Geez, doesn't that sound like fun.
thanks again,
dean
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