Please Help: Cloned Octane 2 rootdisk, no more autoboot.. :(

Ian Mapleson · *nix forums addict Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 54

Btw, this info would have been easy to find with a quick past-posts
search. It's
a question that's been asked quite a few times before.

coyote@NOSPAM4cojot.name wrote:

coyote.NOSPAM@NOSPAM4cojo · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, coyote@NOSPAM4cojot.name wrote:

Found the solution (it was indeed an NVRAM problem):

# nvram -v SystemPartition 'xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition( Cool

'
# nvram -v OSLoadPartition 'xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)'
# nvram -v OSLoadFileName 'unix'

I have no idea why the previous boot disk worked fine without
"OSLoadFileName"...?

Vince

coyote.NOSPAM@NOSPAM4cojo · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

Hi everyone,

I have a nice Octane 2 running 6.5.24f with just one HD (73GB SCA HD,
disk1). This week-end I decided to migrate the system to a new and large
HD (147GB SCA HD). To this end, I did the following:

1) Insert new HD in slot 2 of Octane 2( SCSI ID 2).
2) Boot from old disk (SCSI ID 1).
3) Partition new disk as '[ro]otdisk', increasing the size of swap to 2Gb.
4) Use dvhtool to copy the 'sash' and 'ide' files from disk1 to disk2.
5) # mkfs /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0
6) # mount /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /mnt
7) cd /mnt; xfsdump -l 0 -p 5 - / | xfsrestore - .
Cool

umount /mnt

Then I shutdown the system and moved the disks (new disk as disk1, old
disk pulled from the machine).

The problem I have is that I cannot autoboot this Octane2 anymore (It used
to work fine with the older disk and still does when I put the older disk
back into the machine as disk1). Here's what happens:

----------------------------------- BEGIN LOG ---------------------------
System Maintenance Menu

1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor

Option? 1

Starting up the system...

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

Autoboot failed.
scsi(0)disk(1)partition(0): execute format error.

Hit Enter to continue.
----------------------------------- END LOG ---------------------------

However, I can boot the system by using:
setenv root dks0d1s0
setenv swap /dev/dsk/dks0d1s1
disk(1)partition(8)sash disk(1)partition(0)/unix

The following works too:
boot -f dksc(0,2,8)sash
sash: boot -f dksc(0,2,0)unix

----------------------------------- BEGIN LOG ---------------------------
Command Monitor. Type "exit" to return to the menu.

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