Hi,
I have the situaiton in which primary boot disk has bad sectors in Solaris 9. The other hard disk is mirrored using Solstice DiskSuite 4.2. I can reboot system with the other disk. My question is, when I replaced the boot disk with a new one, how can I create meta db and finally make it... (2 Replies)
What is the correct mkfs syntax to create mirrored disk files systems? I need to make the file system 20gb. For example:
machine# mkfs -F ufs /dev/md/dsk/d40
size not specified
ufs usage: mkfs special size(sectors) \
-m : dump fs cmd line used to make this partition
-V : print this... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a V490 running with Solaris 10. The OS disk was mirrored. I wanted to break the mirror, boot with the secondary mirror, and re-mirror the OS with a new disk.
This is what I did,
detached the metadevices of the secondary mirror disk (disk 1)
metaclear-ed the metadevices,... (1 Reply)
Hello once again seeking your help,
I have a mirrored disk and need to unmirror it to mount it as a new file system (/export) but could not find the correct steps to do it with out affecting the original disk.
can anybody point me out on how to get this done.
Thanks!! (3 Replies)
I have a HP proliant ML 570 G3 with two 146GB disk drives mirrored(RAID1+0)
windows server 2003 was installed on that disk.
I will add a disk.(scsi 300GB)
I will install Linux on that additional disk.
I want to create multiple-boot system.
Is it possible?
I wanna know how to create... (0 Replies)
So I have mirrored disk already set up from c1t0d0 to c1t1d0. Is there some special procedures that I need to do before I do and then try to boot from the mirrored disk? I am using a V490 if that helps... (7 Replies)
Hi guys,
thanks for helping out.
If you have two boot disk mirrored and your primary boot disk fails, how will you boot the system from the second disk?
Thank you very much for your assistance on this matter.
Arrey (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm looking to copy a boot disk on an old Solaris 8 system using dd. I'll bring the system down to single user mode and begin from there. I'm copying my source disk to a larger target disk. Do I need to do anything other than the 'dd' command below because the target disk is bigger? ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sparcman
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
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)