Re: Deleted everything in /

Hah! I got an err M again 3 years later. I was running multiboot
whereby you do a dd from wd0 into a file. So I booted from an install
disk, shelled out, did fsck on the hard drive partitions then used dd
to copy back the bootsector file. It worked.

I just did:
dd of=/dev/wd0 if=obsd.bin
and rebooted, everything came back.



On 3/6/14, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got it. Thanks. I burned a 5.2 install and used the ramdisk
> /usr/mdec/installboot from that. I don't have 5.5 and it would take
> weeks by modem to get it.
>
> On 3/6/14, Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net> wrote:
>> Alan Corey [alan01346@gmail.com] wrote:
>>> I'm at 5.2. Booting from a 5.4 install image I mounted my / as /mnt
>>> then my /usr as /mnt2. Then I did:
>>>
>>> /mnt2/mdec/installboot -n -v /mnt/boot /mnt2/mdec/biosboot /dev/wd0c
>>> and get: Bad system call
>>>
>>> There's a /mnt/boot in place copied from /mnt2/mdec
>>>
>>
>> You need to run installboot from /usr/mdec (or /usr/sbin on 5.5)
>> on the install image ramdisk, not the 5.2 host.
>>
>> And you really need to use the installer and let it do all
>> this for you, or else you should read the install/upgrade scripts
>> and figure out the stuffs.
>>
>
>
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> Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
>


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