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Old 06-11-2009
Problems during booting from mirror disk

Hi All,

I have detached a mirror and primary disk from my Solaris box.

On trying to boot from Primary disk, It boots up good.

But from my mirror disk, it is not booting and giving me the login prompt

Instead it goes to maintenance state by issuing a coredump.

Can you explain why this happens.

Also with out rectifying mirror , i cant go fo installing in boot ( primary )
# 2  
Old 06-11-2009
is it sparc or x86 solaris?
# 3  
Old 06-11-2009
Hi Duke,
Its solaris 10 SPARC
# 4  
Old 06-11-2009
and it's mirrored with slvm? can you post the configuration and how you've done the setup?
# 5  
Old 06-11-2009
Hi Duke

It is mirrored like this

Code:
# metastat -c
d20              m  2.0GB d21
    d21          s  2.0GB c1t0d0s1
d10              m  134GB d11
    d11          s  134GB c1t0d0s0
d22              s  2.0GB c1t1d0s1
d12              s  134GB c1t1d0s0
#


I have detached

metadetach d10 d12
metadetach d20 d22

Not it is not booting from mirror.

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 06-11-2009 at 04:49 AM..
# 6  
Old 06-11-2009
maybe the bootsector is missing on the mirror disk... have you run "installboot" for the / slice on the mirror disk? the setup looks ok for me and without knowing exactly what you've done it won't be easy to find an error...

http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmi...is+9+and+10+OS

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 06-11-2009 at 05:00 AM..
# 7  
Old 06-11-2009
Hi Duke,

On booting the primary disk,
i am getting the login prompt and entered it.

But on the same case with mirror , i dont get the login prompt.
I have not done any thing wih primary as of now.

But i have installed patches in primary disk.

is it advisable to do install boot in mirror and the attach the primary with the mirror.

Pl advise.
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