Re: Mirroring disks with Solstice DiskSuite

From: Andreas Hoeschler (ahoesch_at_smartsoft.de)
Date: 06/26/03

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    Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:03:54 +0200
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    
    

    Dear managers,

    thanks to all that responded. Jim Musso and Bobby Williams suggested to
    put a boot block on the second disk. I executed

    installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
    /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0

    and hoped this would be it. However, I get

            ok nvalias bootdisk
    /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cfef623f,0:a
            ok nvalias mirrdisk
    /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cffd1290,0:a
            ok setenv boot-device bootdisk mirrdisk
            ok boot mirrdisk

    Rebooting with command: boot mirrdisk
    Boot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cffd1290,0:a
    File and args:
    Evaluating: boot mirrdisk

    Can't locate boot device

    I then tried to use the predefined alias disk1 and got

    {0} ok boot disk1
    Boot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@1,0 File and args:
    SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-13 64-bit
    Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

    Nothing more! The system seems to hang!

    Any more ideas?

    Regards,

        Andreas
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