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 <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Alan Corey [alan01...@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. > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
