Problems upgrading from V120 to V240

From: Colin Yuile (colin_at_ips.gov.au)
Date: 02/14/05

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    Hi all,
    I have a sunfire V120 server which I wish to upgrade to a V240.
    Both systems have 36G hard disks (same make and model).

    The V120 is running solaris 9 with the latest patch cluster installed.
    The V240 has been running a solaris 9 for testing without any problems.

    I cloned disk 0 (on the V120) with dd and tested that all was ok by
    booting on another V120 system.

    The first disk of the V240 was then replaced with the cloned disk.
    As per instructions found on the mailing list I performed the following:

    ok boot cdrom -s
    mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /a
    cd /a/dev/dsk
    rm c*
    cd /a/dev/rdsk
    rm c*
    cd /
    drvconfig -r /a/devices -p /a/etc/path_to_inst
    devlinks -r /a
    disks -r /a
    tapes -r /a
    ports -r /a
    audlinks -r /a
    cd /
    umount /a
    halt
    ok boot -r

    Upon boot I get get the following warning about mc-us3i, and a failure
    to mount filesystems.

    Rebooting with command: boot -r
    Boot device: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0 File and args: -r
    SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-17 64-bit
    Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
    Use is subject to license terms.
    WARNING: mc-us3i failed to load
    Hardware watchdog enabled
    ifconfig: plumb: eri0: no such interface
    ifconfig: plumb: eri1: no such interface
    moving addresses from failed IPv4 interfaces: eri0 (couldn't move, no
    alternative interface) eri1 (couldn't move, no alternative interface).
    Hostname: foobar
    mount: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 or /usr, no such file or directory
    /sbin/rcS: /usr/sbin/devfsadm: not found
    /sbin/rcS: /usr/bin/loadkeys: not found
    /etc/rcS.d/S35svm.init: rm: not found
    /etc/rcS.d/S35svm.init: grep: not found
    WARNING: /proc could not be mounted
    /sbin/swapadd: expr: not found

    WARNING - /usr/sbin/fsck not found. Most likely the
    mount of /usr failed or the /usr filesystem is badly
    damaged. The system is being halted. Either reinstall
    the system or boot with the -b option in an attempt
    to recover.

    syncing file systems... done
    Program terminated

    The path_to_inst file is identical to that in /tmp/root/etc when
    booting from cdrom.

    Any help would be greatly apreciated.

    Cheers,
    Colin

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    Colin Yuile (colin@ips.gov.au)
    IT Manager, IPS Radio and Space Services
    Department of Industry Tourism and Resources
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