[SunHELP] Sparc 20 sees new hard drive but won't boot from it

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does the disk drive show up within nvram with show-devs command?
printenv boot-device would show what is set from devalias to use
as the boot device. you can set the boot device with 
setenv boot-device <insert appropriate devalias here>
you may want to customize things with nvunalias nvalias commands.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lowenstein [mailto:davidlowie at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:15 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Sparc 20 sees new hard drive but won't boot from it


Okay, Here's the situation:

I have a sparcstation 20 that I bought 2 new hard drives for. They're IBM 
U160 drives (model dmvs, 9 gig). I added one of the new drives, boot -r'ed, 
and partitioned the new drive. I then copied all of the data from the 
original 4 gig drive to the new 9 gig drive, 1 partition at a time using the

following commands (taken from the ufsrestore man page)

mount /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /mnt (mount the / partition of the new drive to 
/mnt)

ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 | (cd /mnt; ufsrestore xf -)

After I copied all of the partitions I ran installboot to install the boot 
block on /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 (the new drive).

Thinking that everything was going my way, I halted the computer, removed 
both drives, and put the new drive in as the root drive. When I turned it 
back on, it didn't see the new drive and tried to boot from the network. No 
matter what combination of jumper settings I've tried on the drive I can't 
boot from it and open boot won't see it. However, as long as I boot from the

original hard drive with my new drive as a 2nd drive, the 2nd drive works 
just fine.

Any ideas?

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