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- From: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com (Steven J. Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: More fun with /tboot in Coherent 4.0.1
- Message-ID: <SJE.92Aug14143451@xylos.ma30.bull.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 21:34:51 GMT
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- Organization: Bull HN, Worldwide Information Systems, Billerica, Mass., USA
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- As reported earlier, I am having trouble booting Coherent 4.0.1 on my
- 486 system. An error is reported by tboot to the effect that
- "prepare_gift: not enough room for all arguments" followed by "try
- again with 'begin' or 'update'" from /etc/brc.build during
- installation.
-
- A suggestion by MWC was to abort tboot's automatic sequence (type a
- space during the five second pause), and then type "info". Well, this
- definitely produced an interesting repsonse.
-
- Typing "info" once produces a 128 line list of attached drives number
- 0 though 127. As there is only one hard drive, I did not put too much
- faith in this list. Typing "info" a second time during the same boot
- attempt produced a correct one line response, so I guess it must have
- repented of its earlier fibbing. As further suggested by MWC, I then
- typed "autoboot" and tboot proceeded to boot the system with no
- complaints whatsoever. I examined the contents of /dev/boot_gift and
- found "autoboot" at offset 0x20. Earlier troubled boots had apparent
- garbage at this location.
-
- I beleive that typing "autoboot" without first typing "info" produces
- the same prepare_gift complaint as before.
-
- So, MWC, what's the diagnosis? Are there any bogus side effects of
- not using the manual tboot intervention? Can we get a new tboot?
-
- [The above opinions expressed are my own; not necessarily held by others.]
- == Steven J. Edwards Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
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