V240 panics on rebbot command 1

[Sparci]

Hello,

Someone please help............

I am currently pulling my hair out trying to get a V240 to reboot successfully.

Firstly heres the verbose on boot :

ok boot
Boot device: rootdisk File and args:
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-12 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Cannot assemble drivers for root /pseudo/md@0:0,200,blk
Cannot mount root on /pseudo/md@0:0,200,blk fstype ufs

panic[cpu0]/thread=140a000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

0000000001409970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+70 (0, 0, 0, 200, 1457ee0, 0)
%l0-3: 000000000144b800 000000000144b800 0000000000002000 0000000001499720
%l4-7: 0000000001497000 0000000001411e28 000000000144c000 000000000144f400
0000000001409a20 genunix:main+90 (1409ba0, f0059c40, 1409ec0, 35251a, 2000, 160)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 000000000140a000 0000000001412f68 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 0000000078002000 0000000000354000 000000000149f780 00000000010660f0

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
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And the system continually reboots FOREVER.

Until that is I issue 'boot -a' AND EXCEPT ALL DEFAULTS the system comes up fine without as much as an error. With the boot device having the same physical path as that in the OBP.
There are 2 internal 36G root disks mirrored using solaris disk suite , from the ok prompt i can't boot of either manually.

I'm running solaris 9.

I've tried everything and can get nowhere.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[daFranze]

boot the system from cd; mount default boot device (usually c0t0d0s0), edit /etc/system (uncomment or remove the Metadevice Stuff), edit /etc/vfstab (change the entries to use the devices not the metadevices or comment out the additional, non OS, Filesystems using md devices)
move the Filenames (on a Solaris 9 machine)
/etc/rc2.d/S95svm.sync /etc/rcS.d/S35svm.init to something like /etc/rc?.d/_S so they won't be executed by init process

boot the system from disk and set up SVM/SDS again...


Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[Sparci]

Franz.....

You an absolute genius.....been trying to sort this one for a couple of weeks now and finally its sorted.


Thanks again Superb work

Cheers

Sparci.

 

[daFranze]

thank you, in German we say "danke fuer die Blumen" (translated word by word: "thanks for the flowers" meaning it is very appreciated) but this was my job at the Support Center fixing these problems and showing quick solutions...

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years