Re: FAQ 14.9: installboot example parameters reversed

2015-02-26 Thread Nick Holland 
On 02/26/15 05:44, Rolf Sommerhalder wrote:
 Hi,
 
 While salvaging a CompactFlash with a corrupt partition table, I
 noticed that the example in
  http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#InstBoot
 appears to be outdated:
  # cd /usr/mdec; ./installboot /boot biosboot sd0
 
 According to installboot(8), the syntax is:
  installboot [-nv] [-r root] disk [stage1 [stage2]]
 
 e.g. the example should read:
  # cd /usr/mdec; ./installboot sd0 biosboot /boot
 or:
  installboot -v sd0 /usr/mdec/biosboot /boot
 or finally, if sd0a is mounted on /mnt:
   installboot -v -r /mnt/ sd0 /usr/mdec/biosboot /mnt/boot
 
 Thanks,
 Rolf

yes, that section is wrong, but your correction is wrong and incomplete.
The whole point of the rework of installboot was to de-platform-specific
it, and to have sane defaults, thus the new syntax will be just
installboot sd0, and (current) installboot is not in /usr/mdec anymore.

I got to think about this...I'm not sure there's even any merit to this
section anymore.  Proper answer might be delete it.

Nick.

FAQ 14.9: installboot example parameters reversed

2015-02-26 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder 
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Hi,

While salvaging a CompactFlash with a corrupt partition table, I
noticed that the example in
 http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#InstBoot
appears to be outdated:
 # cd /usr/mdec; ./installboot /boot biosboot sd0

According to installboot(8), the syntax is:
 installboot [-nv] [-r root] disk [stage1 [stage2]]

e.g. the example should read:
 # cd /usr/mdec; ./installboot sd0 biosboot /boot
or:
 installboot -v sd0 /usr/mdec/biosboot /boot
or finally, if sd0a is mounted on /mnt:
  installboot -v -r /mnt/ sd0 /usr/mdec/biosboot /mnt/boot

Thanks,
Rolf
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Re: FAQ 14.9: installboot example parameters reversed

2015-02-26 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder 
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... and there is a second example further down in 14.10:

# cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
# /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd0

which should probably read:

# cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
# /usr/mdec/installboot -v -r /mnt/ sd0 /usr/mdec/biosboot /mnt/boot

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