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Operating Systems Solaris Cloned drive won't boot ? Post 302130739 by HikerLT on Tuesday 7th of August 2007 04:05:31 PM
Old 08-07-2007
Thanks....
here is what I tried, it was unsuccessful:

This is a SUN Ultra-10 system

installboot /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0


the command appeared to go fine.
Ran fsck, did not find any problems on the clone disk first partition.

Next I mounted the cloned disk by itself as master, and rebooted - >

Result: still get the failure to boot completely, and get the same error messages...

Hostname bstdx-srvr
/sbin/swapadd: expr: not found
/sbin/swapadd: /usr/sbin/swap not found
Warning: /usr/sbin/fsck not found. Most likely the mount of USR failed or the /usr filesystem is badly damaged. The system is being halted. Either reinstall the system or boot with the -b option in an attempt to recover.
Syncing file systems...done
Program terminated
Ok>


When I tried the boot-b from the ok> prompt:

Init - cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
Init - single user mode
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

installboot

installboot(1M)                                                                                                                    installboot(1M)

NAME

       installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

       installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

       The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

       The  ufs  boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
       found using the -i option of uname(1).

       The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the  architecture.  users should use installgrub(1M) instead.

       bootblk         The name of the bootblock code.

       raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is  read-
                       able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

       Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block

       To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

              example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk 
                   /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

       /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

           directory where ufs boot objects reside.

       /platform/platform-name/ufsboot

           second level program to boot from a disk or CD

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

                                                                    11 Apr 2005                                                    installboot(1M)
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