Re: Using Sun SS20 hard-disk to boot Sun SS5 machine ?

From: Chris Newport (me_at_see-my-sig.invalid)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:31:40 +0000

Johnny Chong wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Anyone tried to use a Sun SS20 operating system hard-disk to be booted up
> on a Sun SS5 machine since both of them are Sun-4m architecture ?
>
> Then to use the Sun S20 os hard-disk to system administer the sun ss5
> machine ?

It will probably not boot.
Read the man page for installboot and write the appropriate
incantation on a piece of paper.
transfer the drive
boot -s from cdrom
mount the drive on /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/sh
run the installboot incantation
exit
sync
umount /mnt

reboot and all should be well. 

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