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

[Dave Lowenstein]

I've tried probe-scsi and probe-scsi-all. If my old hard drive is in along 
with the new one, those commands see the old drive and the cdrom. If only 
the new drive is in, they don't see anything but the cdrom. show-devs 
doesn't say anything about my disks.

the jumpers should have no effect on whether it boots from the drive if the 
drive works as a second hard drive, right?




>From: "Robert Banniza" <RPBanniz at ascensionhealth.org>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Sparc 20 sees new hard drive but won't boot  fromit
>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:33:59 -0600
>
>Have you also tried a probe-scsi-all at OBP to see what it sees?
>
>Robert Banniza
>Senior UNIX Administrator
>Ascension Health
>Phone: 812-228-2157
>
> >>> RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com 02/05/02 12:23PM >>>
>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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