Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: mnetor!geac!geaclib!daveb@uunet.uu.net (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: And then he moved /boot to /usr... Message-ID: <3445@geaclib.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 06:44:34 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 21 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 25 Nov 88 03:34:42 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 38, message 3 of 14 I just had a local site fail to reboot, and then to fsck after someone made a bit of extra space by moving some files from / to /usr. Regrettably, one of the files was /boot. (This made it a **bit** hard to reboot) Unfortunately, replacing /boot, /vmunix and /etc/fsck didn't do a thing for the subsequent problem, in which fsck run from the sd0a partition looped forever. (From mini-unix on sd0b it ran fine). Does anyone know if the physical position of /boot on the disk is critical? I'm wondering if the roms find boot at a fixed offset (or by the same technique used for coredumps during boot?), or if they know about the filesystem organization. Can anyone dilute my ignorance? --dave (I'm intensely curious: this is just too wonderfull to pass up) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. | yunexus!lethe!dave Interleaf Canada Inc. | 1550 Enterprise Rd. | HE's so smart he's dumb. Mississauga, Ontario | --Joyce C-B