I'm under huge pressure to recover data from an old server that only gets booted very infrequently. The data on it is urgently required - isn't always??!
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Server is an HP DL380G5 which is running SCO Unixware 7.11
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It has 3 partitions in a RAID 5 Configuration: 1 of 10GB (I assume it boots off this one) and then 1 of 400GB and the last one is about 150GB. All partitions are marked OK.
The error on booting is “FATAL BOOT ERROR: Can't load stage 3”.
It does not have a FD drive only a CDROM drive.
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I downloaded an ISO CD image from the SCO support site labelled UnixWare-7.1.4-June2008 ISO Image. In the hope that this will give me access to the OS where I could use my scripting skills to check for issues e.g. mount drives, run a fsck etc.
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And I am able to boot off that but end up in a basic BCP - /stand - (which includes boot and unix files ) ... but from this point I'm not sure how to use it and therefore I'm not sure where to go from there ....
I would be very, very grateful for some quick step-by-step assistance for recovering the system - what to check for etc
Thanks in advance!!!
dear all ,
iam trying to compile a progam using gcc compiler on a sun 280 R machine running solaris 9 .
iam getting an error in the last step when the compiler tries to link the objects , although the compiler executes some applicarions that contains no objects smoothly,
the error that... (1 Reply)
Hi
i have both Linux and Windows XP on my PC.
i used to use grub as a boot loader and everything was perfect, until
i reinstalled Windows.
apparently, Windows installer installed its own bootloader, that
doesn't recognize Linux.
i tried using a tool called GrubInstaller for Windows, and now... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I just pulled out my code from source control, then I compiled, the compilation is successful at that time.
Then I modified one of the source file, Then I compiled, I got the following error
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to ../../CM/bin/cato
Before... (1 Reply)
zero experience Unix user here. Cannot boot our Sparc10.
Running:
SunOS release 5.3 Version Generic_Patch
message says:
(Can't load swapgeneric)
Program terminated
Tried to 'boot -s' , but this looks like a problem w/ Generic_Patch maybe?
At bootup, the devices come up fine and it... (0 Replies)
I modified the partitions on my Solaris 10 disk using format command in "boot cdrom -s" mode and then tried rebooting with "reboot". It said "Boot load failed".
Why does this happen?
I have faced this error before:( and I went in for a fresh installation of the OS.Can anyone tell me the reason as... (1 Reply)
hi
SCO Unix 5.0.6 doesn't boot due to this problem:
not a directory
boot not found
cannot open
stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd (40)/boot
Knows someone howto solve it? (16 Replies)
This is the error message that I am getting on a Solaris 10 sparc server
scsi: no major number
cannot load drivers for /pci@400.....
Can't load the root filesystem
Type 'go' to resume
{0} ok
Is there a way for me to correct this issue. It looks like I am missing a scsi driver to boot up... (5 Replies)
Dear all,
I Need your help,my server v240 with sun solaris 10 can't remote login.I try conncet via rsc and then go to OK prom....and i get the status :
{1} ok boot -a
FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled
{1} ok boot cdrom -s
FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is... (2 Replies)
I have M10-1. Installation OS 10 from cdrom external.
Here message from OK Prompt
{0} ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@8000/pci@4/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0/usb@4,1/cdrom@1
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP65NB60 PF00
But..
{0} ok boot... (3 Replies)
Today, I noticed some errors in our SSL cert renewal log files, mostly related to domains where the IP address had changed. Concerned about this, rebuilt out SSL cert, which normally goes well without a hiccup.
However, for today, for some reason which I cannot explain, there was a PHP error... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
vfstab
vfstab(4) File Formats vfstab(4)NAME
vfstab - table of file system defaults
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/vfstab describes defaults for each file system. The information is stored in a table with the following column headings:
device device mount FS fsck mount mount
to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
The fields in the table are space-separated and show the resource name (device to mount), the raw device to fsck (device to fsck), the
default mount directory (mount point), the name of the file system type (FS type), the number used by fsck to decide whether to check the
file system automatically (fsck pass), whether the file system should be mounted automatically by mountall (mount at boot), and the file
system mount options (mount options). (See respective mount file system man page below in SEE ALSO for mount options.) A '-' is used to
indicate no entry in a field. This may be used when a field does not apply to the resource being mounted.
The getvfsent(3C) family of routines is used to read and write to /etc/vfstab.
/etc/vfstab can be used to specify swap areas. An entry so specified, (which can be a file or a device), will automatically be added as a
swap area by the /sbin/swapadd script when the system boots. To specify a swap area, the device-to-mount field contains the name of the
swap file or device, the FS-type is "swap", mount-at-boot is "no" and all other fields have no entry.
EXAMPLES
The following are vfstab entries for various file system types supported in the Solaris operating environment.
Example 1: NFS and UFS Mounts
The following entry invokes NFS to automatically mount the directory /usr/local of the server example1 on the client's /usr/local directory
with read-only permission:
example1:/usr/local - /usr/local nfs - yes ro
The following example assumes a small departmental mail setup, in which clients mount /var/mail from a server mailsvr. The following entry
would be listed in each client's vfstab:
mailsvr:/var/mail - /var/mail nfs - yes intr,bg
The following is an example for a UFS file system in which logging is enabled:
/dev/dsk/c2t10d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c2t10d0s0 /export/local ufs 3 yes logging
See mount_nfs(1M) for a description of NFS mount options and mount_ufs(1M) for a description of UFS options.
Example 2: pcfs Mounts
The following example mounts a pcfs file system on a fixed hard disk on an x86 machine:
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0p0:c - /win98 pcfs - yes -
The example below mounts a Jaz drive on a SPARC machine. Normally, the volume management daemon (see vold(1M)) handles mounting of remov-
able media, obviating a vfstab entry. If you choose to specify a device that supports removable media in vfstab, be sure to set the mount-
at-boot field to no, as below. Such an entry presumes you are not running vold.
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s2:c - /jaz pcfs - no -
For removable media on a SPARC machine, the convention for the slice portion of the disk identifier is to specify s2, which stands for the
entire medium.
For pcfs file systems on x86 machines, note that the disk identifier uses a p (p0) and a logical drive (c, in the /win98 example above) for
a pcfs logical drive. See mount_pcfs(1M) for syntax for pcfs logical drives and for pcfs-specific mount options.
Example 3: CacheFS Mount
Below is an example for a CacheFS file system. Because of the length of this entry and the fact that vfstab entries cannot be continued to
a second line, the vfstab fields are presented here in a vertical format. In re-creating such an entry in your own vfstab, you would enter
values as you would for any vfstab entry, on a single line.
device to mount: svr1:/export/abc
device to fsck: /usr/abc
mount point: /opt/cache
FS type: cachefs
fsck pass: 7
mount at boot: yes
mount options:
local-access,bg,nosuid,demandconst,backfstype=nfs,cachedir=/opt/cache
See mount_cachefs(1M) for CacheFS-specific mount options.
Example 4: Loopback File System Mount
The following is an example of mounting a loopback (lofs) file system:
/export/test - /opt/test lofs - yes -
See lofs(7FS) for an overview of the loopback file system.
SEE ALSO fsck(1M), mount(1M), mount_cachefs(1M), mount_hsfs(1M), mount_nfs(1M), mount_tmpfs(1M), mount_ufs(1M), swap(1M), getvfsent(3C)
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
SunOS 5.10 21 Jun 2001 vfstab(4)