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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Bootable disk Post 14540 by thehoghunter on Friday 1st of February 2002 01:34:15 PM

02-01-2002

thehoghunter

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Have you attempted to make a boot/root floppy?

Found on caldera support page:

Description:

With rs506a installed on your system, booting the system up from
boot/root floppies on Openserver 5.0.6, cpio fails to work. It will
fail with:

dynamic linker : cpio : error opening /usr/lib/libsocket.so.2
Killed

NOTES: This problem only arises with rs506a installed, this is important
for the two libraries needed are not on the base install of OpenServer
5.0.6.

CAUSE: The following two libraries have not been put on the root floppy
when mkdev fd is run:

/usr/lib/libsocket.so.2
/usr/lib/libresolv.so.1

Solution:

This problem has been submitted to SCO engineering.

A workaround, for now, is to put these two libraries on the root
floppy disk.

1. When creating the root floppy, you will be asked if you
wish to put additional files on the disk. Enter "y" and type
in the two libraries:

# mkdev fd

2. Choose option 2: 'create emergency boot and root floppies.'
3. Choose the appropriate floppy type.
4. Choose to create the Root floppy.
5. Enter "y" when prompted with the following:

'Do you want to place extra files on the root
filesystem? (y/n)'

You will now need to copy the two libraries to /mnt where
the RAM disk image will be built later:

<bootroot> cp /usr/lib/libsocket.so.2 /mnt/usr/lib/libsocket.so.2
<bootroot> cp /usr/lib/libresolv.so.1 /mnt/usr/lib/libresolv.so.1

Now finish creating the root floppy disk and cpio will work after
booting off the emergency floppies.

Try this link - it may help.

http://support.caldera.com/caldera/

thehoghunter

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NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

	   Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

	   Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

	   The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

	   The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

	   The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
	   devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file	is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
	   /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
		/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

	   Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

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       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

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