[rescue] Booting a Sparcstation 5 with 1 good 1 bad HD

rswqdfnptj at snkmail.com rswqdfnptj at snkmail.com
Wed Dec 1 14:45:17 CST 2010


On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan J. M. Katz
jon-at-jonworld.com|sunrescue/send to gmail|
<p2u6qzsqxt at sneakemail.com> wrote:

> Woohoo! We're seeing the disk that should be there!
>
>
>
> > >  Try a "boot -srva disk0" ??
> >
> > Rebooting with command: -srva disk0
> > Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 3,0:a File and args: -srva disk0
> > Boot Release 4.1.4 (sun4m) #2: Fri Oct 14 11:07:52 PDT 1994
> > Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> > Boot: Romvec version 3.
> > root filesystem type ( 4.2 nfs ):
> > Default root device: /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 01001000/espdma at 5
> > ,8400000/esp at 5
> > ,8800000/sd at 3,0: a
> > root (block) device ('*' for list) :
> >
>
>
> I'm thinking that the "default" root device that it thinks is root is not
> valid. Use "*" to get a list, then enter the one that makes the most
> sense....
>
>
Not sure what I typed, but the boot continued:
root filesystem type ( ...)
root device (...) :
WARNING: clock gained 3687 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root on sd0a fstype 4.2
swap filesystem type (...):
swap device (...):
swap on sd0b fstype spec size 98800K
dump on sd0b fstype spec size 98788K
le0: Twisted Pair Ethernet
lc0: RARP timed out
mount: /dev/sd1g on/usr: No such device or address
mount: giving up on:
/usr
checking / and /usr filesystems
fsck: No such file or directory
Unknown error in reboot fsck.

WARNING - file systems have NOT been remounted read-write.
Use fsck ...
-: stty: not found
-: /etc/opt/licenses/LIC_CONFIG_SCRIPT: not found

and then it's at a # prompt.

Bad news?



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