[FreeVMS] Disk images

[Roar Thronæs]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:51:47AM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> 
> 	1/ What is the difference between c.img and c2.img ? I have seen
> 	that c2.img is a copy of c.img, but diff c.img c2.img returns
> 	"binary files differs"... I don't understand.

Probably because of different mount, creation/access times etc.

There will be a practical difference when both disks have different
cluster configs.

> 	2/ a.img contains a grub bootable disk. I think that the second
> 	partition of c.img is an ODS-2 disk. Right ? But I cannot boot on
> 	this partition. I don't know if I cannot boot because a.img doesn't
> 	contains o2fs_stage1_5 (maybe a bug in the script) or if the second
> 	partition of c.img is not a regular ODS-2 filesystem. I have copied
> 	o2fs_stage1_5 and o2fs_stage1_5.exec, but I only obtain the same
> 	result :
> 
> 	"Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition"

I have got the same files as you have, and I can still boot.
There is no need for state1_5 files.
Was the ODS-2 disk initialized?
Can you mount it?

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Regards,
Roar Thronæs