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 On 3/5/14, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Alan Corey [alan01...@gmail.com] wrote: >> I wasn't too concerned until I discovered the machine wouldn't boot, >> comes up to ERR M or something like that. I put a kernel and a copy >> of boot in place from /usr/mdec but it still comes up and just says >> loading then nothing. Do I need to do installboot? >> > > Yeah > >> I was half asleep and did rm tempdir /* when it should have been rm >> tempdir/* >> > > You're better off just using the fs or iso images from the 55 snapshot > directory and using the 'U'pgrade because you probably have a bunch > of other broken/missing stuff as well. > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX