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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: How to boot from 2nd disk with 1st installed as well?
- Message-ID: <uolps0c@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:34:48 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.144142.19697@cs.ruu.nl>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1993Jan11.144142.19697@cs.ruu.nl> edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) writes:
-
- | I've added a second SCSI disk to my Indigo on which I've installed the
- | 4.0.5 release. To check out the new release, I'm trying to boot from the
- | second disk, using the PROM monitor:
- |
- | boot -f dksc(0,2)/unix
-
- >> boot dksc(0,2)unix root=dks0d2s0 initstate=s
- ... (system boots to single user)
- # mount -c /dev/dsk/dks0d2s6 /usr
- # multi
-
- Will do the job. For long term situations, do this instead of the
- mount:
-
- # cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV disklinks
- # mount -c /usr # (should mount the 2nd disk as /usr)
- # devnm /usr # (should print ... dks0d2s6
- # /etc/autoconfig -f # rebuild kernel to use drive 2 as root disk
- # mv /unix.install /unix
- # reboot
-
- | Where do I find full (user) documentation of the PROM monitor? Where do I find
- | the full range of PROM environment variables documented?
-
- All the documentation that there is, is in 'man prom', with a very
- small amount in the Installation Guide (or release notes, for hardware
- newer than the Installation Guide).
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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