ITEM: E5339L

creation of bosboot diskettes is failing.

Question:

I just upgraded from AIX 3.2.4 to 3.2.5 and I am trying to create
bosboot diskettes.  When I do a bosboot -a -d fd0 I get the message
device not ready.  I also have tried to do a bosboot -a -d /dev/fd0
with no luck.  I have checked to see if the diskette was write
protected.

Response:

He had the 'noclobber' option set via "set -o noclobber" in his .kshrc file
and this was screwing up the bosboot command in a big way.

We turned off the noclobber "set +o noclobber" and then reran bosboot and this
fixed it up.  NOTE:  We took the "set -o noclobber" out of the .kshrc so that 
when the bosboot forks a shell, the noclobber wouldn't be set.




Support Line: creation of bosboot diskettes is failing. ITEM: E5339L

Dated: October 1993 Category: N/A

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