[16156] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun 8.2.8: 'bootdevice' set wrong on athena 8.2 installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Whatever you wish...do so to them)
Thu Aug 13 18:49:53 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:38:41 -0400
To: Anne Salemme <salemme@MIT.EDU>
From: "Whatever you wish...do so to them" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199808051337.JAA04563@vegematic.mit.edu>
I believe you are absolutely correct. Apparently the fresh systems from
Sun -- some of them at least -- are coming in set to disk: b
Hotline is supposed to know how to fix this. I think it is just
boot disk:a
and the system uses that as the default next time. However, you
may want to check with Miki on this.
Mike
At 09:37 AM 8/5/98 -0400, Anne Salemme wrote:
:)System name: lava-lamp.mit.edu
:)Type and version: sun ultra10, running athena 8.2.8, installed aug 4
:)Display type: ?? (sorry, i'm running sendbug from another system)
:)
:)What were you trying to do?
:) 'init 6' to reboot the system
:)
:)What's wrong:
:) after installing athena 8.2 on a sun ultra 10 yesterday, i found
:) at the 'ok' prompt, the 'boot-device' was set to
:) disk:b net
:)
:) set like this, the machine will fail to reboot on an 'init 6', etc.
:)What should have happened:
:) i believe it should be set to
:) disk:a
:)
:) so that it will try to boot from the root partition, and never
:) try booting from the net
:)Please describe any relevant documentation references:
:) [Please replace this line with your information.]
:)
