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Operating Systems Solaris Solved: Disk Unable to Boot Post 302870157 by hicksd8 on Friday 1st of November 2013 09:30:09 AM

11-01-2013

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As I said, the /usr files (as supplied on the distribution) are quite critical. These normally sit in /usr whereas /usr/local normally contains stuff added locally (eg, third party packages and locally compiled packages).

I suggest that you look at your hard disk root filesystem and list the /usr directory to see what's there. (Compare it roughly with another running server).

Boot from cd and mount your hard disk root filesystem under /a
Then list /a/usr
What's there? If that directory is empty then it almost certainly needs the slice 3 mounted there. If it contains the normal /usr stuff, then perhaps slice 3 does indeed contain only 'local' stuff that it mounted under /usr/local as per the current vfstab.

I'm also concerned about slices 6 & 7 on that VTOC but be careful editing the VTOC. You'd need to boot from cd and run 'format'. Edit slices 6 & 7 in turn and enter zeros for the start and size parameters to remove these slice configs, and then write the modified label back. Be careful to fully record what was there before you start in case it goes wrong.

However, let's concentrate on /usr first.

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local-filesystems

local-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				      local-filesystems(7)

NAME

       local-filesystems - event signalling that local filesystems have been mounted

SYNOPSIS

       local-filesystems [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  local-filesystems  event  is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all local filesystems listed in fstab(5).  moun-
       tall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with  other
       activity.

       This event is typically used by services that must be started in order for remote filesystems, if any, to be activated.	Remember that some
       users may not consider it wrong to place /usr on a remote filesystem.  For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient.

       This event will never occur before the virtual-filesystems(7) event.

EXAMPLE

       A service that wishes to be running once local filesystems are mounted might use:

	      start on local-filesystems

SEE ALSO

       mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21						      local-filesystems(7)