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Operating Systems Solaris Boot problem Post 302699307 by hicksd8 on Tuesday 11th of September 2012 11:08:57 AM
Old 09-11-2012
I suggest that you boot the machine into single user:

Code:
 
boot cdrom -s

then try and run 'format'. Select 'analyze' and 'read' to do a non-destructive test of the surface. See what errors you get there.

Also, you could launch format in expert mode:

Code:
 
format -e

then select the scsi menu. Be careful not to do anything destructive.

As you will appreciate, this is a difficult issue to troubleshoot remotely. I assume the drive is not making any bad clicking noises?

Your photo seems to indicate that it is trying to read the same sector when this error occurs. If that's all it is then remapping that might work.

---------- Post updated at 04:08 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:05 PM ----------

Also, regardless of anything IF you get this drive to talk sense, you need to run an immediate backup because it doesn't look healthy.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

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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