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Operating Systems Solaris Big UH-OH "Bad magic number in disk label" Post 67544 by deckard on Thursday 24th of March 2005 01:16:46 AM
Old 03-24-2005
Big UH-OH "Bad magic number in disk label"
I tried rebooting my Sun server just a few minutes ago and I got the following at boot:
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Sun Fire 280R (UltraSPARC-III+) , No Keyboard
Copyright 1998-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.5, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #xxxxxxxxx
Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Host ID: 8323nnnn.

Rebooting with command: boot
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Boot device: net File and args:
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
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Now I know that this was probably my fault because I was trying to get a look at the partition table with fdisk and I think I hosed something when trying to view slice 2. The big question is... can this be fixed without having to reinstall the OS and restore data from tape? This box is running Sun Solaris 8 02/02 with no patches. (I know, I know... my job just keeps me too busy to keep up) I have a spare system with Solaris on it and I could restore from the last backup, but I really want to avoid this if there is a way to fix the disklabel without losing data on the drive. Not to mention the last time I restored from tape, it took 18 hours.

I already have a call into Sun support, but our contract only allows calls in starting at 8:00M EST. I'm just hoping that someone here might give me some ideas of things to try before I talk to Sun. Man I feel foolish...
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

sf880drd

sf880drd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      sf880drd(1M)

NAME

       sf880drd - Sun Fire 880 Dynamic Reconfiguration daemon

SYNOPSIS

       sf880drd

DESCRIPTION

       The  Sun  Fire  880  Dynamic Reconfiguration daemon, sf880drd, is part of the PCI and system bus hotplug framework. sf880drd starts at boot
       time. It has no configuration options and does not report any system status.

       sf880drd implements the Sun Fire 880 console-less system administration (per-slot pushbuttons and LED status indicators). It  also  manages
       various aspects of CPU/memory hotplug.

FILES

       /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/lib/sf880drd

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsfdr.u		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       svcs(1), cfgadm(1M), cfgadm_pci(1M), cfgadm_sbd(1M), svcadm(1M), attributes(5), smf(5)

NOTES

       The sf880drd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:

	 svc:/platform/sun4u/sf880drd

       Administrative  actions	on  this  service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The ser-
       vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

SunOS 5.11							    13 Aug 2004 						      sf880drd(1M)
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