Hello and let me say at first, thank you for viewing this problem I have.

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Where I work, we have a Dell PowerEdge T300 X86 system running Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86, and we realized, if this machine went down, we would be in trouble. So to fix that situation, I took it upon myself to remove the second drive (with the machine off, of course) from this server, which has a SAS, 2 drives, in RAID 1, and each at 147GB. I attached a 500GB Western Digital to available SATA port and booted up a copy of gparted (live cd) and was able to, at the CLI use the dd command. Here is the command I use:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M

sda was the one lone sole drive remaining on the PCI-E SAS controller and also the SATA drive on the SATA port from the motherboard. I was sure this was the corrected device assignments because I ran "fdisk -l" prior to the cloning. The /dev/sda has the Solaris partition and the 500Gb had no partitioning at that point. In about 45 minutes, the process stopped and I moved the copied drive over to another Dell T300 we have, which is not in use, and I plugged the drive up and as expected, the GRUB menu loads and I get this:

Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
Solaris failsafe

When I press enter on the first selection, the machine hard drive activity runs a little and in 10 seconds, the machine reboots. Now, if I go for the Solaris failsafe, the machine will boot up and I get this:

SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-33 32-bit
(other stuff related to no network connection)
Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86 was found on /dev/dsk/c0d0s0.
Do you wish to have it mounted read-write on /a? [y,n,?]s:

I notice the disk is being listed as a IDE device now, due to the /dev/dsk/c0d0s0. Is my assumption correct?

Here is my current vfstab:

Code:

#device  device   mount  FS fsck mount  mount
#to mount       to fsck   point  type pass at boot  options
#
fd - /dev/fd fd  - no -
/proc - /proc proc  - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 -  - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0  / ufs 1  no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6  /usr ufs 1  no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4  /var ufs 1  no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5  /tmp ufs 2  yes
-
/devices - /devices  devfs - no -
ctfs - /system/contract  ctfs - no -
objfs - /system/object objfs  - no -

Here is my partition table if it helps:

Code:

Total disk cylinders available: 17747 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders  Size  Blocks
0 root wm 1021 - 1275  1.95GB  (255/0/0)   4096575
1 swap wu 1 - 1020  7.81GB  (1020/0/0)  16386300
2 backup wm 0 - 17746  135.95GB (17747/0/0) 285105555
3 unassigned wm 0   0  (0/0/0)  0
4 var wm 1276 - 1785  3.91GB  (510/0/0)   8193150
5 unassigned wm 1786 - 1849  502.03MB (64/0/0)    1028160
6 usr wm 1850 - 17746  121.78GB (15897/0/0) 255385305
7 unassigned wm 0    0  (0/0/0)     0
8 boot wu 0 -     0  7.84MB  (1/0/0)     16065
9 unassigned wm 0   0  (0/0/0)     0

I will assume that there is some misdirection going on here and the system can't find the previous SCSI drive and the SATA drive isn't taking the form of the previous. In the Dell T300 BIOS, there is no AHCI, only ATA, so that's why it's IDE.

What I need to know, has this thing been a no go from the start or can I correct the needed entries in the vfstab and just to let you know, that the block device cmdk@0,0 does not exist in the /devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/ on the original configuration, only sd@0,0 sd@0,0:q sd@1,0 and sd@1,0:q . Also no c0d0s0 in /dev/dsk or /dev/rdsk.

If you can help in giving some information, I would be appreciated.

Thank you

-nitrolinux