SCSI disk and installboot problems... (v9n

[Doug Moran]

jto at ousrvr.oulu.fi writes 

 > Formatting and partitioning the (new) disk succeeded after some minor
 > problems with /etc/format.dat. But making the disk bootable using
 > installboot seemed to be impossible; it always flamed back with a message
 > 'not a superblock'. Why is this ?

The problem is that installboot fails in certain circumstances when the
label was not visible when the workstation was last booted (either because
the disk was off-line or because it was not yet labeled).

-- Doug Moran