Thanks to all for their help and suggetions especially Michael Maciolek, thomas Payerle and Darren Dunham. Solution: As Thomas pointed out the error message explains what to do. I also found the link after googling http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-4215/6i82c9l08?a=view which explains the problem and solution. I had to delete all the metadb which were in unknown state. Once i deleted the same i was able to boot normally. Howerver i still need to find out how do i recover data from the failed metadevice as none of the disks shows failed now. Thanks to all Darren Dunham wrote: >>Hi Gurus, >>I have two D1000 attached to Sun Netra T105 both are configured with >>Disksuite metadevice. Last week in one of the D1000 three disks failed >>and since then box didn't came up. When i boot the box it gives >>following error: >>NOTICE: md: mddb: parsing error on 'sd:143:-1' >>NOTICE: md: mddb: parsing error on 'sd:159:-1' >>metainit: sciaswls04: stale databases >>Insufficient metadevice database replicas located. >>Use metadb to delete databases which are broken. >>Ignore any "Read-only file system" error messages. >>Reboot the system when finished to reload the metadevice database. >>After reboot, repair any broken database replicas which were deleted. >> >>I can't modify any files. All filessytems are read-only. If i try to >>edit vfstab or system files to disable both metadevices. It gives an >>error as /var/tmp not found. >> >> > >That's not how you disable metadevices. You have to use 'metadb'. > > > >>The box is at co-location so i can't put >>boot from CD as well. I can't bring the box up. Below is the df >>output. >> >> > >'df' output is irrelevant (at this stage). You'd need 'metadb' output. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue May 16 19:09:53 2006
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