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- From: rogerj@cs.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda)
- Subject: comp.sys.sgi.admin comp.sys.sgi.hardware comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.191411.29641@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:14:11 GMT
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- Fellow SGIers,
-
-
- We just got some new Indigos. I must say we are impressed!
- Very fasy machines. BUT, the documentation is pretty
- poor.
-
- We want to add a BOOTABLE 1G drive to one machine.
- We have tried dvhtool AND a direct sash copy (from ROM) from the
- OEM bootable disk (the small 236 ST1280 that comes with the
- machine) but no luck. We tried:
-
- dvhtool -v create /stand/sash sash
-
- That wanted to know
- starting end ending blocks
- which of course we couldn't
- tell it. How does one know
- where to start and end.
-
- We just want to make a bootable disk! For those
- familiar with DEC/Ultrix, we want to do the equivalent
- of /etc/newfs (which installs bootblocks) or for SUN
- folks out there the equivalent of installboot. How
- do you tell IRIX to install the needed things into the volume
- header of a new disk to make THAT disk bootable. It
- can't be too hard.
-
- We WERE able to read the vol header though, the the disk
- was made correctly at least and it is mountable, but
- not bootable...:-(
-
- If it's in TFM, just point us, we'll be glad to use them, but
- we already spent four days hacking and the manuals don't have
- this info!
-
- Thanks much in advance!
-
- --Roger Jagoda
- Cornell University
- rogerj@cs.cornell.edu
-
-