12-21-2012
System is stuck at the OK prompt
Here is a little background. We have a V240 server that has two disks mirrored (out of 4 disks) and one of the disk complained when booting up. The system complained with /etc/inittab file is truncated or corrupted, cannot create /ar/adm/utmpx failed write of utmpx entry.
Someone tried to fix this problem by removing the mirrored root disk and tried booting up the system. I believe with mirrored disks you cannot do that and must break the mirror to remove. Or at least boot up to the other mirrored root disk before breaking the mirror.
The system boots up in the ok prompt with the original mirrored disk and I cannot get it to boot to the other mirrored disk. I have ran the devalias and used this path to create nvalias altboot path and rebooting the box. But I still come up with the ok prompt.
am trying to boot to the other mirrored disk but have failed to get to that point. Whoever build thi box provided me with a Gold Disk and this is what was used in place of the root disk but I do not think the mirror was broken up before using this Gold Disk...thus think we may have a stale system.
Any ideas on how to boot up in the other mirrored disk?
Thanks!
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