Solaris

Hi pressy,

The tape was created with ufsdump and looks like a normal directory structure from / when you ls it.

I've just gone through the list of files and directories at this level and added them to the restore (ufsrestore if /dev/rmt/0) and then extracted them.

I had previously created the /usr, /opt & /var directories but I assume the restore will overwrite them? Will this confuse my mount points? Will I have to umount them and re-mount?

Thanks for your help so far

Just tried the boot again with no success.

I tried the probe-scsi command to make sure that I was trying to boot from the right partition but it complained and error'd until I restarted the box.

Anyway, I tried to the following command:

OK> boot disk2:0


Then a few minutes later it compained heavily. I couldn't catch all the information because I was on the console but it said stuff like:

"cannot assemble drivers for root"

"trying to mount vfs"

"kernel panic" - followed by lots of numbers...

I'm surprised that it mentioned vfs because I thought I was using ufs...

It seems that you have tried to restore a version of solaris 9 which is not supported on your hardware, you need a minimum of 12/03.

Hi Reborg,

The restore is actually the OS that the hardware came with - for some reason it was decided to backup this and install version 8.

We did find that the vfstab file was wrong but the disk is still unbootable - I think it might have something to do with the filesystem layout being different to the original installation - everything was under the root but now we have separate mount points for the /usr, /var, /opt etc directories...

Would the difference in filesystem layout make the disk unbootable?

Many thanks,

p.

as far as i know you cannot use /etc as an own partition... the kernel initialisation and the boot process need many files from there like /etc/system, the vfstab, rc/init scripts...

gP

Sorry my last post wasn't clear the etc I mentioned was the abreviation of excetera and not the UNIX directory

what directories did you exclude and did you include them into your /etc/vfstab with the correct options like "mount at boot"?...

i could also think about some missing links ... not sure if there are many relations, depends on your excluded directories....

post your vfstab...

gP