Re: Setting up dual-boot on Indigo2 for 6.5 and 5.3...

From: Gerhard Lenerz (lene4401_at_uni-trier.de)
Date: 08/11/04

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    Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:15:01 +0200

    On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:05:22 +0200, Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
    > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.sgi.admin.]
    > On 11 Aug 2004 08:39:12 -0700, Ian Mapleson wrote:
    >> So far, when I run the script on the 6.5 disk, it correctly sets
    >> SystemPartition and OSLoadPartition, but after rebooting the
    >> 5.3 startup gives the normal copyright message followed by this error:
    >
    > Are these all NVRAM variables that are set?

    Try also setting root to an appropriate value for both cases. As
    I have seen it isn't required with one disk installed (even if the
    boot disk is on #2 and another one on #1 exists), but maybe IRIX
    gets confused somehow with two system disks.

    I just tried setting root to the wrong value on my Octane so that
    it loads the kernel from disk #2 and is asked to mount root from
    the wrong disk (#1). The kernel comes up, then complains that it
    cannot mount it's root. It then continues with it's default overriding
    the wrong NVRAM setting. The message looks similar to what you get.

    Gerhard

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