Solaris

I just installed solaris 9 on a sunblade 150(sparc), and have it partitioned. I've been using ufsrestore to restore bring the config from my old system, to the sunblade. I'm not having any luck. The root directory restore seems to work. When I try to restore /usr, I get an "/usr/sbin/fsck not found, please use boot -b to recover or reinstall the system" error. I looked through some of my manuals and online, and found some info.

First step I've found is to mount the new files system to a temp mount point.

In my case, the first one I want is root(for me, it's on c0t0d0s0)
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
# mount: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 is already mounted

Next step is to cd to the mounted directory
in my case, it's / (I'm already there)
I create the tape device entries
# tapes
# ufsrestore rvf /dev/rmt/0
(only one tape needed)

the root fs is restored, I perform an ls to verify.
#rm restoresymtable

I try to do a umount:
# umount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
# / is busy

Once I saw that, I tried ps -eaf to see what was running, nothing on / . Got the same with fuser.

Am I missing something? Should I not have installed the OE first? Thanks for any input.

First, are your ufsdumps done in single user mode? If not, they may be useless.

Second, if you are booting up the new server it should be from cdrom, not from the disks. I think you are booting from the disk because of the statements you make: You shouldn't 'be there' - c0t0d0s0 shouldn't be mounted - you didn't mount it to a temporary mount as suggested in your post. You have it mounted on it's normal mount point.

Take a look at this document on Sunsolve.

Thanks for the input. I'm currently checking out the doc on SunSolve.

Still having the same problem.

Tried boot -s cdrom
did a stop-a to get to the prom menu, noticed the partitions are still mounting on their own. Can't umount any of them. Am I just halting the system at the wrong time? I'm doing it after I see the solaris banner.

What do you mean they are mounted? The OBP menu does not have any concept of mounted or unmounted filesystems.


What you need to do is:

boot cdrom -s

with for the single used command prompt (#)

mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt
cd /mnt
ufsrestore rvf /dev/rmt/0

then restore the boot block:

installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
reboot