Solaris

Hi,

First sorry for my english !


I'm a newbie on Solaris and I'm trying to clone a SUN T5220 (sun4V platform) on SUN V240 (sun4u platform) using ufsdump/ufsrestore.
Dumping all filesystem and restoring it on the V240 box and Make the disk bootable using installboot command.

When rebooting I got this error :

Boot device: bootdisk File and args:
Can't open boot_archive
Evaluating:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

Q1 : is it possible to do this, clone a sun4v to sun4u ?
Q2 : If yes how can I do this : make the disk bootable ?

Thanks in advance for you help.

I think that there may be a problem with the change of arcitechture. It's been a while since I had a Sun, but only the files required for the hardware are installed from the original media.

I'm assuming that you have done the inital boot from CD and then used ufsrestore and directed it to the appropriate disk slice. If you have a DR contract in place where you go offsite to recover your server, they may be able to guide you around this problem as they likely face it frequently. It may be possible to overlay the restored files with the appropriate ones from the CD, however you will need to be certain that they are from the same version, of course. I can't remember the directory structure to look at for this though.



I hope that this gives you a few pointers.

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

Which version of Solaris are you working with?

What you are trying to actieve is a big conversion but is possible.

Describe what you have done so far,

Restored all filesystems?
Installed boot block?

When you say that you're a newbie that's on Solaris? or on Unix too?

Hello,
The main difference between sun4u and sun4v, for people who are not Solaris Admins, is this.
sun4u is a normal rack server.
sun4v is a blade server.
We use a build on a sun4v server to build most of our other servers, using a flar image.
This for new builds though.

I hope this helps.

I've not heard of a "flar" image, but I think you are talking about what I remember as jumpstart, comparable to NIM on AIX and I'm sure invented everywhere else too (is it ignite on HP-UX?). That's more of an install server and in setting that up, you would include all the software to run on any (supported) hardware architecture.

I'm not that fits the bill here, but it may be possible to install from CD then ufsrestore over the top to replace all the configuration files. No guarentees, but it might work.

Be careful if you have the network card plugged in as you may end up with an IP conflict with the original server causing all sorts of trouble.

Much testing required.



I hope that this helps
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

I found this regarding :
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/...nel/index.html

It's for other way around (sun4u --->sun4v ), but i would give this a shot with changing some parameters, of course.

Unfortunately i don't have the HW to test it, but you obviously have

What a find!