[SunHELP] Jumpstart Installation.

[Meng, Andrew]

Greg,

I do not have exact mesage handy. But it is very similar to this:

ok boot disk1

Boot device: /sbus/esp at 0,800000/sd at 3,0   File and args:

bootblk: can't find the boot program

Program terminated 

In the Jumpstart profile, I have
partitioning explicit
filesys c0t3d0s0 4000 / 

Is there any problem? It is a 18GB disk, what is the appropriate way to
partition? Thanks a lot!

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg [mailto:gonufer at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:42 PM
To: Meng, Andrew
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Jumpstart Installation.


On 10/30/01 10:50 AM, Meng, Andrew wrote:

> We  just attached a new 18G disk to a SS10 machine and installed  OS from
a
> Intel Solaris machine. When rebooting after installation, the bootblk can
> find the boot device on target 3 SCSI disk. 
> 
> I realize I did not specify the boot_device profile keyword  in Jumpstart
> profile. When I run probe-scsi, I find it is attached to target 3 with 0-7
> disk units and the current boot device alias is indeed pointing to target
3
> disk. Why it can find boot device?  Did I miss something?  I installed /
on
> c0t3d0s0. How can I manually update the EEPROM manually without
reinstalling
> the whole thing again? 


What is the *exact* error?  If any part of the root filesystem extends 
past the first 2GB of the disk then the system may not be able to boot. 
  But that's different than not being able to open the disk at all--- in 
this case the bootblk loads, maybe even the secondary boot loads, and 
then files aren't found.  On pre-sun4u machines the root filesystem must 
be completely contained within the first 2GB of the disk.  The size 
doesn't matter as much as the location (though a root filesystem larger 
than 2GB obviously won't be able to meet the location requirement).

-greg



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