[3906] in Athena Bugs
VAX boot blocks in 6.4R
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Sat Jan 6 14:46:01 1990
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 90 14:45:43 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, ops@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The contents of the RT /usr/mdec in 6.4R is identical to that in 6.3B,
with the addition of what look like source files. On the VAX,
however, the following files are missing: boothk, boothp, bootra,
bootrl, bootup. Without these, the installboot program fails to
install bootblocks, and a disk can't be made bootable. This causes
newfs to fail to install bootblocks when you run it on a root
partition.
I consider this a major problem, and one that we must fix before the
release. If no one from Release Engineering is available to implement
the fix, I volunteer to do it myself.
Only in 6.3B: boothk, boothp, bootra, bootrl, bootup
