[SunHELP] strange boot issue

[Jerry Kemp]

devfsadm -C

is Cleanup mode.

YMMV.  At least mine has.

Good luck,

Jerry



On 02/ 8/17 02:05 AM, Peter Stokes wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> I suspect you are falling foul of the relationship between the fibre drives
> which have unique WWN number sand the standard cxdxtxsx. Unlike SCSI, each
> drive is ref'd separately. From memory delete the /dev/dsk and rdsk ref to the
> drive you are having issues with and run devfsadm. There is probably a switch
> to do this without having to do the delete the delete, just forget what it is
> for now (see man page).......
>
> Peter
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> On 8 Feb 2017, at 02:06, Connolly, Michael - ITT Interconnect Solutions
> <Michael.Connolly at itt.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Solaris 9
>>
>> I recently restored the OS from a tape backup of one E280R to another
> E280R.
>> This box has 3 T3 arrays, I restored to c1t1d0s#.
>>
>> I have a running OS on c2t1d1s# that I can easily boot on the same box
>> (original OS).
>>
>> When I boot c1t1d0s# array, it fails with "/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6" no such
> device
>> (I made this slice /usr so boot will not continue)
>>
>> BUT when I boot from c2t1d0s# array, it boots fine (original OS on the box)
>> and I can mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 to a temp mount point and see all of the
>> /usr files are there.
>>
>> I tried boot -r but no go. Really mystified why this is happening.
>>
>>
>> Michael J. Connolly
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