06-16-2009
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Well, I think I should be able to boot off the mirror disk without removing the primary disk, after all, I can do that with Windows XP, which is the 3rd disk in the system.
But I did try that anyway and got the dreaded Error 22 for the thousand and one time.
I think this looks better:
# eeprom altbootpath=/pci@0,0/pci10de,376@a/pci1000,3150@0/sd@1,0:a
#: eeprom | grep -i bootpath
bootpath=/pci@0,0/pci10de,376@a/pci1000,3150@0/sd@0,0:a
altbootpath=/pci@0,0/pci10de,376@a/pci1000,3150@0/sd@1,0:a
BTW, found this line for x86, doesn't work either, neither file exists on my system:
# installboot /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/pboot /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/${MIR_DISK}s2
#: ll /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/pboot /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/pboot: No such file or directory
/usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk: No such file or directory
Update:
I was able to boot off the mirror disk, which was specified in the /grub/boot/menu.lst file.
Now question, just to be completely sure, how do I know which disk I booted off? Is there anything in the system logs that says "I booted off MIRROR disk and not primary"?
I did yank out the primary disk, tried to boot off mirror and went back to the Error 22 above.
How do I validate that the mirror disk is bootable? Can I swap primary and mirror disks and just let it boot?
Last edited by etc; 06-16-2009 at 01:20 PM..