Preloaded root disk for Ultra 2

[terrywashington]

I preloaded Solaris 8 on a replacement root disk for an Ultra 2 in an SPARC 5 workstation. I was trying to minimize downtime as the Ultra 2 is a production server. I copied all data including /etc/vfstab to the new disk. The Ultra 2 displays the below message upon bootup.

boot device: disk file args:
fastdata access mnu missed
0 OK

The system them stops at the OK prompt. I have tried doing a boot -r and a STOP + N only to return to the same message. I really don't want to have to reload this disk and bring this production server down. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[cfsalmeida]

which command you use to copy the data ?, you can now try boot from cdrom in single user mode and check if you can mount the root filesystem in the disk, them is controller paths ok ? is boot block okay ?

Regards,

Carlos ALmeida,

 

[terrywashington]

I installed the disk as the second disk in the SPARC 5 and copied the data from the Ultra 2 accross the network via tar/ftp. Unfortunately the Ultra 2 is at a remote site and I would have to walk our NT/network admin through the steps to mount the different fileysystems after booting in single-user mode. That was another reason that I preloaded the disk. It may be quicker for me to walk him through reinstalling Solaris which we have done before.

 

[Guest_imported]

Sorry I don't understant you in my first reply, as far I can understant now you install Solaris 8 in a SparcStation 5 to move it to a ultra2 ? if am right now ... the SparcStation 5 is a 4m architecture (32bits) and the ultra 2 is a sun4u architecture (64bits), also hardware in both machines may be very different and the disk controler paths ,etc will differ,if the ultra2 have a cpu >= 200mhz
is trying to load Solaris 8 64 bits now (do you select 64 bits in install ?), SCSI paths also may be wrong as far I can remenber SparcStation5 default target is "t3" and default target on ultra2 is "t0", so the best you can do is try recreate all "device tree list" on the ultra2 with a "boot -a" from the okay prompt then check if SCSI paths are okay, if you had installed Solaris 8 in S5 with full distribution maybe it works ...

Regards.

Carlos ALmeida,