[SunHELP] external boot disk problems

[Dale Ghent]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jason Meggs wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I have a corrupted boot disk on a sparc 20 running Solaris 2.5.1.
|
| Fortunately, I have a backup and an external SCSI drive.  I have
| partitioned, newfs'd, and restored everything to the best of my knowledge,
| as well as running installboot on the external.
|
| When I attempt to boot with the new drive (/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s[0134567])
| using a command such as
|
|  ok boot disk1:0 -rs
|  ok boot disk1 -rs
|  ok boot disk1
|
| everything seems to be normal for a bit and then, suddenly a spray of
| errors fills the screen along the lines of:

Perhaps the /etc/vfstab on your new disk points to the old (c0t0d0) drive?

/dale