SUMMARY: Problem booting clone system

Many thanks to all the people who responded. I got about 15 responses.

The problem was cloning an Ultra 1 (SBUS disk subsystem) to a 220R (PCI
disk subsystem).

Many of you have suggested to make sure that:
     o 'bootbloks' are installed on the new disk
     o make sure the OBP setting point to the correct boot device
     o make sure that a volume manager was not running
     o make sure that device names in /etc/vfstab matched that of
       /dev & /devices directory.
     o make sure that /etc/path_to_inst was up-to-date

And then there was a response from Alex Stade <alex@trdlnk.com> who
wrote to make sure that I had the 'glm' PCI drivers (SUNWpd & SUNWpdx)
actually installed on the new target system; I DID NOT.
Many thanks Alex !

George

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:45:01 -0500 (EST), George Kahler <george@yorku.ca> wrote:
> I have to clone a present production server running Sol8 Sun Ultra1
> hardware to a Sun 220R hardware.
> 
> I keep getting the following boot errors.
> So far I have:
> o ufsdumped and restored from the production system /, /usr & /var via
>   a third system onto the target system disk
> 
> o set the boot PROM boot-file to kernel/unix
> 
> o on the new target system I have booted from a CD into single user
>   mode and used Joon Hansen advice to
>   ok boot cdrom -s
>   # mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
>   # devfsadm -r /a -p /a/etc/path_to_inst
>   # umount /a
>   # halt
>   ok boot -r
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> George
> 
> Rebooting with command: boot -r                                       
> Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0  File and args: -r
> SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_117350-14 32-bit
> Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Cannot assemble drivers for root /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a
> Cannot mount root on /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a fstype ufs
> 
> panic[cpu0]/thread=10404000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
> 
> 10403bb8 genunix:vfs_mountroot+68 (10424c00, 0, 0, 400, 80, 0)
>   %l0-7: 10424c00 10427828 00000000 bf000000 00000000 1040b7d4 0009fcaf 00000000
> 10403c18 genunix:main+8c (1, 2000, 1, ff00, fff2, f02)
>   %l0-7: 10404000 0000f010 00248000 1041c530 10451098 00266c82 000b6470 00000000
> 
> skipping system dump - no dump device configured
> rebooting...
> Resetting ... 
> 
> 
> Any help you have to offer would be appreciated.
> George
> 
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