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

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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Matt P laz303-at-gmail.com |sunrescue/send
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> If I've read the thred correctly, you've moved this disk from the top
> bay to the bottom, having removed a bad disk from the bottom..
> put this disk back in the top, leave the bottom empty, and do your
> "boot disk1" from the OBP prompt.. bet that will work.. the disk
> thinks it has to look for the slices in the old position according to
> /etc/vfstab and you've moved it to a different scsi address..
>
>
Trying that yields:
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 1,0:a  File and args: cprboot
root on /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,1001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 1,0:
a fstype 4.2
Boot: cprboot
Boot:  lookuppn failed: No such file or directory (errno 2)
copen: bad vn_open
boot failed
root on /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,1001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 1,0:
a fstype 4.2

and the n back to the "Boot:" prompt.