Re: install question

From: David Jeske <jeske_at_nospam.org>
Date: Tue Oct 27 1998 - 10:21:04 PST

On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:39:58AM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the documentation for VSTa is way out of
> sync with the current distribution. This is one of the
> things it doesn't tell you:

Where is it that this documentation mistake exists?

>
> > module=/vsta/boot/dos -p disk/wd:wd0_dos0 fs/root
>
> The "-p" flag for specifying a namer path was basically
> made obsolete when the feature was added to library
> open() to interpret any path starting with // as a
> namer path. The syntax for some of the servers changed
> as a result.
>
> What you want instead is:
>
> module=/vsta/boot/dos -n fs/root -d //disk/wd:wd0_dos0 -B 512
>
> The "stage12 file" is named grub.raw, and as you noticed,
> it is simply the concatenation of the stage 1 and stage 2.
>
> Eric

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Received on Tue Oct 27 07:14:43 1998

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