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

[Jake Hawkes]

I might be way off line, but have you done the bootblocks command?


--- Dave Lowenstein <davidlowie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >_________________________________________________________________
> >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
> >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
> >_______________________________________________
> >SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> >http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> >_______________________________________________
> >SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> >http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> >
> >
> >NOTE: This e-mail message may contain information that may be privileged,
> >confidential, and exempt from disclosure.  It is intended for use only by
> >the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in
> >error, please do not forward or use this information in any way, delete it
> >immediately, and contact the sender as soon as possible by the reply option
> >or by telephone at the telephone number listed (if available).  Thank you.
> >_______________________________________________
> >SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> >http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> 
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: 
> http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
> _______________________________________________
> SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp


=====
---
Jacob Hawkes, B. Eng (CSE)
Programmer / Analyst
Metso Automation
jacob.hawkes at metso.com
jakehawkes2001 at yahoo.com (while onsite in Venezuela)
Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings!
http://greetings.yahoo.com