Did the system boot via the FC link which is now down?
Do you know from which disk it should boot?
It is possible that the proper boot disk is local disk0 which has sustained filesystem damage during the power cut. You may need to boot from DVD and fsck this filesystem. If that doesn't work you may need to recover some files from backup. It is likely that the FC link is down as far as the SC is concerned because Solaris isn't running and the QLogic driver isn't therefore loaded.
but I will leave this comment here in case someone is useful
In case of Solaris boot from SAN, for any Storage Brand, is necessary execute additional steps in the OPENBOOT prompt, basically this steps are related to configure the FC HBA at low level, in order to indicate the FC topology and select the boot disk from the HBA level. When you set the ID disk in the HBA level, then the FC link come up.
The steps to config the HBA in the OPENBOOT prompt depend of any HBA brand/model.
There are manuals of Emulex and QLOGIC with this information.
Only to put a short example, for EMULEX.
NOTE *****
This is just a fragment of the manual, please review the complete procedure.
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Hello all,
Let me introduce about the context and my environment.
We have an AIX 6.1 system, it has 4 FC channels
/ > lsdev -Cc adapter | grep fcs
fcs0 Available 23-T1 Virtual Fibre Channel Client Adapter
fcs1 Available 23-T1 Virtual Fibre Channel Client Adapter
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