SUMMARY: Rescuing a V100 disk

Thanks to Jonathan Birchill and Bernd Schemmer who pointed me in the
direction of checking the bootblock on the correct disk (disk0 - first
ide) and installing the bootblock. I now have an operational machine.

Thanks.

dan.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:02:12 -0000, Jonathan Birchall
<Jonathan.Birchall@ins-sure.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> But is disk1 actually set to the right physical disk.
> 
> With regards to copying ufsboot , you say you can get the system to
> single user mode over the net, can you mount another root file system
> onto this machine ? ie under /a for example.
> 
> If so the you will need to
> cp /a/platform/`uname -m`/ufsboot /platform/`uname -m`/
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Cave [mailto:dan.cave@gmail.com]
> Sent: 11 March 2005 09:53
> To: Jonathan Birchall
> Subject: Re: Rescuing a V100 disk
> 
> Jon, thanks for your prompt reply,
> 
> > This means that it is no looking at the correct device for booting
> from.
> > Check the boot device is set correctly in the nvram.
> 
> printenv boot-device=disk1
> >
> > Or,
> >
> > Do you get a "boot load failed" before this message? if so then the
> > ufsboot is missing or corrupted and you will have to install it from
> > somewhere.
> 
> No, how do i reinstate the boot loader onto disk1 using ufsboot?
> 
> regds
> dan
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