SUMMARY: problem with Netra X1 booting

Thanks for all the replies.

The most replies are pointing out I have no boot block installed and advice
me to use command installboot.

However, I have found out there is impossible to boot from mirror until we
replace first disk and re-jumpstart the whole system because for some
reason, the mirror is not work.

After the re-jumpstart and I go back to test:
OK boot disk2
And it is working find.

Does it mean the installboot command is not needed in general?

Does it mean that if the first disk failed again, then the disk2 should be
able to boot up without any problem or interfere manually? (in the condition
the mirror is successful)

Many Regards


Julie Xu

Data Communication Team
Information Technology Directorate
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC  NSW  1797


-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Xu [mailto:j.xu@uws.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:56 PM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Cc: j.xu@uws.edu.au
Subject: problem with Netra X1 booting

Greeting,

I have a NetraX1 machine, it has two disks which c0d0t0 is a boot disk and
c0t2d0 is a mirror of boot disk.

now, the first disk failed and can not be seen anymore:
OK probe-ide
  Device 0  ( Primary Master )
         Not Present

  Device 1  ( Primary Slave )
         Not Present

  Device 2  ( Secondary Master )
          ATA Model: ST340016A

  Device 3  ( Secondary Slave )
         Not Present

But, the second disk seems accessable.

OK devalias
disk                     /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0
rtc                      /pci@1f,0/isa@7/rtc@0,70
usb                      /pci@1f,0/usb@a
flash                    /pci@1f,0/isa@7/flashprom@1f,0
lom                      /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010
i2c-nvram                /pci@1f,0/pmu@3/i2c@0,0/i2c-nvram@0,aa
net1                     /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5
dload1                   /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5:,
dload                    /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c:,
net0                     /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
net                      /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
cdrom                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@3,0:f
disk3                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@3,0
disk2                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
disk1                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@1,0
disk0                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0
ide                      /pci@1f,0/ide@d
floppy                   /pci@1f,0/isa@7/dma/floppy
ttyb                     /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,2e8
ttya                     /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,3f8

So, I tried boot from second disk:
ok boot disk2
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0  File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

Could I get some advice, from this point, what I can do to bring the second
disk work for me?

Any advance will be appreciated

Thanks in advance

Julie Xu

Data Communication Team
Information Technology Directorate
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC  NSW  1797
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