[SunHELP] help! SUNWmdr - metadb and Solaris 2.8 April 2001 f ailing!

[Foong, Tzeweng]

Hello Dale
Thanks for the reply. 

I tried running devfsadm as you suggested. However it did not to work. 
it still came up with the error message as before.

  metadb:hostname.domainname.com: /dev/md/admin: No such file or directory.

sigh...
We are running in the jumpstart environment ie off the miniroot and the
system 
being installed is in the /a directory. 

Note that these scripts work fine using the March_2000 release of Solaris 8
!!!
the problem seems to be related to the Solaris 8 April 2001 release.

We are installing using DiskSuite 4.2.1 that comes with the Solaris 8 April
2001 
release CDs.

If there are any more ideas I will be keen to hear from anyone !! 

Thanks
Tze Weng Foong




> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dale Ghent [SMTP:daleg at elemental.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 23 May 2001 2:16
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [SunHELP] help! SUNWmdr - metadb and Solaris 2.8 April
> 2001 failing!
> 
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Foong, Tzeweng wrote:
> 
> | Hello There,
> |
> | We are trying to roll out installation of Solaris 8 April 2001 release.
> and
> | we
> | seem to be having problems running the metadb -a -f command to create
> the
> | admin database. We have jumpstart script that were running with the
> | Solaris 8 March 2000 release. however as that release does not work with
> | the new netra and other new hardware and that why we are using the
> | new Solaris 8 April 2001 release.
> |
> | It may be because that the package install is broken?
> | The package installation does not seem to be updating anything in
> | etc/system
> 
> The installation of and if the SUNWmd* packages makes no immediate changes
> to /etc/system. Changes to /etc/system are made by the utilities (such as
> metadb, metainit, and metaroot) as they are ran.
> 
> | when it comes to run the metadb -a -f .... command it says that it
> cannot
> | create the /dev/md/admin device
> 
> Try running devfsadm, then making the meta db's. My hunch is that you
> didnt reboot after the installation of the DiskSuite utilities. If that's
> the case, running devfsadm will make the new /dev/md tree for you.
> 
> /dale
> 
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