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Walther Mathieu
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:29 pm    Post subject: Indigo2 cloned system disk won´t boot Reply with quote

Hello,

again I could need some expert´s advice.

Having successfully moved the entire content of a system disk
to a bigger drive - after use of fx, mkfs, dvhtool and the
xfsdump|xfsrestore method - it won´t boot by itself.

It gives the message: Autoboot failed.

Unable to execute scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0):
execute format error

However,
boot -f dksc(0,1,8)sash dksc(0,1,0)unix root=dks0d1s0
does the trick.

What am I missing eventually?

TIA

Walther
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Joerg Behrens
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Joined: 29 Apr 2005
Posts: 106

PostPosted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Indigo2 cloned system disk won´t boot Reply with quote

Walther Mathieu schrieb:
Quote:
Hello,

again I could need some expert´s advice.

Having successfully moved the entire content of a system disk
to a bigger drive - after use of fx, mkfs, dvhtool and the
xfsdump|xfsrestore method - it won´t boot by itself.

It gives the message: Autoboot failed.

Unable to execute scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0):
execute format error

However,
boot -f dksc(0,1,8)sash dksc(0,1,0)unix root=dks0d1s0
does the trick.

What am I missing eventually?

TIA

Walther

Check if there is "bootfile = /unix" entry in the volume header of
that disk

----- bootinfo-----
root partition = 0 swap partition = 1 bootfile = /unix


regards
Joerd
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Walther Mathieu
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Joined: 05 Jun 2005
Posts: 91

PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:20 am    Post subject: Re: Indigo2 cloned system disk won´t boot Reply with quote

Joerg Behrens wrote:

Quote:
Check if there is "bootfile = /unix" entry in the volume header of that
disk

----- bootinfo-----
root partition = 0 swap partition = 1 bootfile = /unix


regards
Joerg


Thanks, Joerg!

You were right, there was no volume header bootfile entry:

----- bootinfo-----
root partition = 0 swap partition = 1 bootfile =


An easy thing to fix this from the PROM monitor:

setenv OSLoadFilename /unix


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