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- From: dds@doc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions? (SOLUTION)
- Message-ID: <16tkqqINN3e6@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:11:38 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- Many people have reported endless boot cycles after installing 386BSD
- on a hard disk. I had the same problem, and solved it using the
- following procedure. The problems seems to be wrong disklabels on
- the disk created by install. This is can fixed, by doing it manualy.
- You milleage may vary.
-
- (1) Boot with the fixit floppy disk
-
- (2) Make floppy writable
- mount -u /dev/fd0a /
-
- (3) Make space to add a new disk label
- rm /[A-Z]* /usr/bin/tip
-
- (4) Create a new disk entry. The manual pages for disktab 5 should guide
- you. You need to know the characteristics of your hard disk.
- Look at the disks in the file, and add one for your own disk.
- cd /etc
- vi disktab
-
- (5) Label your disk
- disklabel -r -w diskname
-
- The rest (steps 6-27) comes from article <148ersINNr9t@agate.berkeley.edu>
- by Chris Demetriou <cgd@agate.berkeley.edu>. I just have added a small
- modification to make mount and umount executable.
-
- (6) newfs the partitions
- (7) mount the new root partition under /mnt
- (8) mkdir /mnt/usr
- (9) mount the new /usr partition under /mnt/usr
- (10) cpio directory-by-directory (recursively -- by hand!) the entire
- contents of the fixit floppy to the hard drive
-
- you'll do something like:
-
- cd /
- ls | cpio -pdalmu /mnt
- cd /sbin
- ls | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/sbin
- cd /usr
- ls | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/usr
- cd /usr/bin
- ls | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/usr/bin
-
- etc. yes, it's tiring.
-
- (11) copy /usr/distbin/mount and /usr/distbin/umount to /mnt (so that
- they'll be in the new root partition, so you can mount the new
- /usr partition...)
-
- Do this using echo mount | cpio -pmaldu /mnt in order to preserve
- the executable flags of the files. Chmod is not yet on the disk.
-
- (12) shutdown
- and the eject the floppy.
-
- (13) reboot off the hard drive, the fsck -p <root raw device>
- If there are any errors, after the fsck is done, hit
- ctl-alt-delete, and repeat this step.
-
- (14) fsck -p <usr raw device>
-
- (15) mount -u <root device> /
-
- (16) mount <usr device> /usr
-
- (17) insert 0.1 boot/install floppy (dist.fs) into floppy drive
- and "mount /dev/fd0a /mnt"
-
- (18) cd /mnt
- and then
- usr/bin/zcat etc/baselist.Z | usr/bin/cpio -pdalmu /
-
- (19) cd /
- and then
- /mnt/usr/bin/zcat /mnt/etc/baseutils.cpio.Z | /mnt/usr/bin/cpio -idalmu
-
- (20) umount /mnt then eject the floppy
- (21) umount /usr
- (22) shutdown
-
- (23) reboot off the hard drive, and get all of the various files (the
- bindist files, srcdist files, etc...).
- I put them into /usr/tmp, because there wasn't enough space in
- /tmp (because it was on a small root partition...).
-
- (24) cd / ; cat <all the binary files> | uncompress | cpio -idalmu
-
-
- (25) rm <all the binary files>
-
- (26) put your hostname into "/etc/myname" and put your ip addr/hostname
- into /etc/hosts.
-
- (27) make an fstab for yourself. specifically, you want something like:
- <root device name> / ufs rw 1 1
- <usr device name> /usr ufs rw 1 2
-
-
- Good luck,
-
- Diomidis
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