Bootparam -w 1

[Fixles]

Hello All,

I have a very ill server which keeps rebooting itself. Its running SCO Openserver 5.06. My hardware vendor has sent me an identical second server which I'm trying to set up so they can take the broken one away for diagnostics.

I booted with boot and root disks created on the identical server created the unix partition and 'divvy'ed up the raid controllers logical drive with to the same geometry as my Ill server. I then restored all data to these partitions from our cpio backup from the I'll server. This included everything on the server including all SCO system files and included /dev/boot mounted to /stand.

I think the only thing left to do is "bootstrap" the server to allow it to boot from the root hd controller under its own steam.

I was told to bootparam -w but the command wasn't found. (Is this a techie joke like sending apprentice labourer for a long stand in the builders merchants?)

Can anyone tell me how I get the server to boot from the hard disks?

Many Thanks,

James

 

[pcunix]

It's

dparam -w

not bootparam.

You also need

dd if=/etc/hdboot0 of=/dev/hd0a
dd if=/etc/hdboot1 of=/dev/hd0a bs=1k seek=1

But what you REALLY should have done is downloaded a demo of Microlite Edge or Lonetar and used that. SCO's boot/recovery setup is highly inferior. See

http://aplawrence.com/Reviews/supertars.html

Tony Lawrence
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http://aplawrence.com