SUMMARY: df -k reports wrong disc after boot failure

Chris.Young_at_edl.uk.eds.com
Date: 02/24/04

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    Unfortuntely, I was unable to find a solution to the problem below.

    Thanks to the following people who offered their advice and assistance with
    this problem:

    Casper ***
    Mark Andrews
    Darren Dunham
    Eugene Schmidt
    Jim Seymour

    Chris Young
    EDS Defence Ltd.
    Communications & Messaging Group
    chris.young@edl.uk.eds.com

    > -----Original Message-----
    >
    > Hello Gurus!
    >
    > I am experiencing a problem with a Sun Ultra 10 running
    > Solaris 2.6. Upon
    > booting, I get an UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY error from fsck
    > when it tries to
    > check /. Every subsequent filesystem check also fails for the
    > same reason.
    > This causes the boot process to fail.
    >
    > When I login in single-user mode, df -k seems to think that
    > every mount is
    > using /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s?. instead of /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s?.
    > Additionally, format
    > gives a 'No Disks Found!' error, even though probe-ide
    > correctly identifies
    > the disc (a single 18.64GB IDE) at the OpenBoot prompt.
    > /etc/vfstab, /dev
    > and /devices are all set up correctly.
    >
    > Bizarrely, if I boot from CD-ROM, I can fsck the disc and
    > mount all of the
    > partitions without any trouble at all, and format detects
    > the disc properly
    > too.
    >
    > This problem is preventing a system update from going out so
    > any suggestions
    > as to what may be causing it, and how to resolve it would be greatly
    > appreciated.
    >
    > Thanks very much,
    > Chris
    >
    > Chris Young
    > EDS Defence Ltd.
    > Communications & Messaging Group
    > chris.young@edl.uk.eds.com
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