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Operating Systems SCO Booting problem due to adding hard drive incorrectly Post 302392348 by lappies67 on Thursday 4th of February 2010 05:56:52 AM
Old 02-04-2010
Data Booting problem due to adding hard drive incorrectly

I have tried to (unsuccessfully) add an old drive to get drivers (for the 3Com network card) onto a Sco Openserver 5.1 server. Now it wont boot:
I used Sco Admin to do this.
It have 3 scuzzi drives
I added an IDE
I think what I did wrong was add the IDE to existing space, and I should not have

I am planning on resolving but would really appreciate some experienced input before I do this:
1. Boot using Linux boot CD
2. Mount partitions
3. Edit files pertaining to the mountable volumes to correct/revert

Dont know if anyone has a better solution or the answers.
The boot messages:
Gets to H iinit
"PANIC: srmountfun - Error 22 mounting rootdev hd (1/42)
Cannot dump 65375 pages to dumpdev hd (1/41): Space for only 0 pages

** Safe to Power Off **
-or-
** Press any key to Reboot"
 

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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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