[3907] in Athena Bugs
Re: VAX boot blocks in 6.4R
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jan 6 14:54:23 1990
From: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 90 14:54:05 -0500
To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, ops@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: David Krikorian's message of Sat, 6 Jan 90 14:45:43 -0500,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 90 14:45:43 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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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
The install kits do *NOT* use the contents of /usr/mdec on the VAX;
these are not the correct bootblocks!!! Use /usr/mdec at your own risk.
-Richard
