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Operating Systems SCO SCO 5.0.7 no root disk controller found error during install Post 302389104 by FrictionBurn on Friday 22nd of January 2010 04:31:02 PM
Old 01-22-2010
Question SCO 5.0.7 no root disk controller found error during install
I'm "attempting" to install SCO 5.0.7 on an HP ML370 G4 server and am ready to bash the keyboard with head now. I keep getting the error message "WARNING hd: no root disk controller found" when running the bootable install cd.
I have a raid 5 array with an online spare created using 4 36.3 GB drives on an HP 6400 smart array controller using smart start 7.1 and 1 logical drive configured on said array and a tape drive on the array controler as well. The onboard raid controllers have been disabled in the bios and nothing is attached to them. On bootup you can see the controlled being initialized and the drives in the array spinning up and it recognizes the logical drive.
I've tried using several variations on the defbootstr but still nothing seems to work so now i'm a bit stuck. Below is what I thought was the proper loader

defbootstr link=ciss hd=Sdsk Sdsk=ciss Srom=wd(0,0,0,0)

but alas, no luck so far. Does anyone have any suggestions?


Regards
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

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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