[SunHELP] Summary: /etc/system changes

[Dottie Weaver]

Thanks to everyone who replied, you were a great help:

original message:

| Help please, I have rebuilt a Sun server and it no longer uses md but
the
| problem is when I reboot the bootblk looks for the md's from the
/etc/system
| file. I am unsure as to how this file should be setup not using md's.
| If anyone could fill in the blanks maybe a sample of a generic system
file
| would be of great help.
| Thanks in advance.


Replies:

To fix this, do the following:

>From the 'ok' prompt: boot -as

Accept the default for all questions asked, but when it asks you the
location of /etc/system, specify /dev/null

You should then boot into single-user mode. edit /etc/system and remove
all md-related lines. especially make sure that the rootdev line is
commented out or removed. save and reboot.

The server should then come up fine.

/dale



>While commenting out .. realise that commenting is done using  "  *
"  and not
>the conventional "   #  ".

Recent versions of SunOS accept both characters as start-of-comment
characters.  Excerpt from system(4):

	Comment lines must begin  with  an  asterisk
	(*) or a hash mark (#) and end with a newline character.

-greg


While commenting out .. realise that commenting is done using  "  *   "
and not
the conventional "   #  ".

Easiest way is to just comment the DiskSuite (md) related lines out of
/etc/system, or delete them. They're only in place for use by DiskSuite,
and since you're not using DiskSuite, you can happily get rid of them!

A default /etc/system file, as shipped with Solaris, has nothing but
comments and blank lines in it!



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