[rescue] Trying to revive my E450

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A ZFS root does not necessarily get the bootloader installed on both drives
of the mirror AFAIK. If you are sure you tried booting from both disks and
it doesn't work, that is hard to understand. It is also not a good sign the
disk label isn't recognized. Are you sure you got the right disks? I have
seen that error before when trying to boot from a non-Solaris disk. For
example if you install *BSD on a SPARC box and then try to do a fresh S10
install you get that message until you manually format the drives with
Solaris format.

Are you sure you are booting from the right drives? It might be worth trying
to boot from the other drives too in case you pulled the wrong ones.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:02:47AM -0400, Toby Thain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an E450 with 4 cpus installed that ran fine for a few years as a
> Solaris 10 box with ZFS boot. About 4 years ago I mothballed it and pulled
> the two boot drives out to store (ZFS was in a mirror configuration).
> 
> This weekend I decided to see if it would come up again.
> 
> Predictably, the NVRAM is dead. "The IDPROM contents are invalid"
> And it's forgotten its mfg-options. (I found info by Googling that this
> should be set to 49 for E450.) I'll have to do something about that.
> 
> More surprising to me than the NVRAM failure though was that it produces the
> same result when I try to boot from either drive:
> 
> 
> ok boot disk
> Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 0,0  File and args:
> Bad magic number in disk label
> Can't open disk label package
> 
> Can't open boot device
> 
> 
> It seems unlikely to me that both disks have died. Does anyone have any
> other ideas? Could it be related to the NVRAM failure?
> 
> Here's what I haven't tried yet:
> - I haven't checked disk jumpers
> - I haven't tried to mount the disks and check them on another machine. This
> could be a bit of work, but I can get around to it.
> 
> It's a long time since I set up this Solaris/ZFS install. Maybe I've
> forgotten some quirk of booting ZFS on old SPARC. Any suggestions welcome.
> 
> --Toby
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