From: Milligan, Eric T. (Eric.Milligan@ngc.com)
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 16:37:39 EST
Thanks to Jessica Cohen and Jim Fitzmaurice for quick replies:
Jim pointed out the 'zeero' command, and Jessica gave the way to get the
boot process to not save the hardware; just set bootdef_dev "" at the SRM.
Thanks to all who replied.
-----Original Message-----
From: Milligan, Eric T.
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:20 PM
To: Tru64-Unix-Managers (E-mail)
Subject: Quick way to erase a disk
We have a machine with a single disk used for some testing that recently got
upgraded to Tru64 5.1B (PK3). Now we'd like to re-install the machine
fresh, but are running into a couple of problems. When booting off the
Tru64 5.1B CD, the system states something to the effect of "Saving hardware
configuration information". If we subsequently go through the OS install,
when the system reboots it complains that it can't find the partitions we
specified and refuses to boot.
We tried escaping to a shell and dd'ing /dev/zero to the disk, but it
appears that /dev/zero isn't available.
Anyone have a workaround, or a way to boot off the CD without it saving the
previous hardware configuration?
Thanks,
-- Eric Milligan
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