SUMMARY: problem with Netra X1 booting

2007-12-25 3:31:00

Thanks for all the replies.

The most replies are pointing out I have no boot block installed and advice
me to use command installboot.

However, I have found out there is impossible to boot from mirror until we
replace first disk and re-jumpstart the whole system because for some
reason, the mirror is not work.

After the re-jumpstart and I go back to test:
OK boot disk2
And it is working find.

Does it mean the installboot command is not needed in general?

Does it mean that if the first disk failed again, then the disk2 should be
able to boot up without any problem or interfere manually? (in the condition
the mirror is successful)

Many Regards

Julie Xu

Data Communication Team
Information Technology Directorate
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC NSW 1797

-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Xu [mailto:j.xu at uws.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:56 PM
To: codeprof at codeprof.com
Cc: j.xu at uws.edu.au
Subject: problem with Netra X1 booting

Greeting,

I have a NetraX1 machine, it has two disks which c0d0t0 is a boot disk and
c0t2d0 is a mirror of boot disk.

now, the first disk failed and can not be seen anymore:
OK probe-ide
Device 0 ( Primary Master )
Not Present

Device 1 ( Primary Slave )
Not Present

Device 2 ( Secondary Master )
ATA Model: ST340016A

Device 3 ( Secondary Slave )
Not Present

But, the second disk seems accessable.

OK devalias
disk /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 0,0
rtc /pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/rtc at 0,70
usb /pci at 1f,0/usb at a
flash /pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/flashprom at 1f,0
lom /pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/SUNW,lomh at 0,8010
i2c-nvram /pci at 1f,0/pmu at 3/i2c at 0,0/i2c-nvram at 0,aa
net1 /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at 5
dload1 /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at 5:,
dload /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at c:,
net0 /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at c
net /pci at 1f,0/ethernet at c
cdrom /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/cdrom at 3,0:f
disk3 /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 3,0
disk2 /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 2,0
disk1 /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 1,0
disk0 /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 0,0
ide /pci at 1f,0/ide at d
floppy /pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/dma/floppy
ttyb /pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/serial at 0,2e8
ttya /pci at 1f,0/isa at 7/serial at 0,3f8

So, I tried boot from second disk:
ok boot disk2
Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/ide at d/disk at 2,0 File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

Could I get some advice, from this point, what I can do to bring the second
disk work for me?

Any advance will be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Julie Xu

Data Communication Team
Information Technology Directorate
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC NSW 1797

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