SUMMARY: Problem booting clone system

From: George Kahler (george_at_yorku.ca)
Date: 03/01/05

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    Many thanks to all the people who responded. I got about 15 responses.

    The problem was cloning an Ultra 1 (SBUS disk subsystem) to a 220R (PCI
    disk subsystem).

    Many of you have suggested to make sure that:
         o 'bootbloks' are installed on the new disk
         o make sure the OBP setting point to the correct boot device
         o make sure that a volume manager was not running
         o make sure that device names in /etc/vfstab matched that of
           /dev & /devices directory.
         o make sure that /etc/path_to_inst was up-to-date

    And then there was a response from Alex Stade <alex@trdlnk.com> who
    wrote to make sure that I had the 'glm' PCI drivers (SUNWpd & SUNWpdx)
    actually installed on the new target system; I DID NOT.
    Many thanks Alex !

    George

    On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:45:01 -0500 (EST), George Kahler <george@yorku.ca> wrote:
    > I have to clone a present production server running Sol8 Sun Ultra1
    > hardware to a Sun 220R hardware.
    >
    > I keep getting the following boot errors.
    > So far I have:
    > o ufsdumped and restored from the production system /, /usr & /var via
    > a third system onto the target system disk
    >
    > o set the boot PROM boot-file to kernel/unix
    >
    > o on the new target system I have booted from a CD into single user
    > mode and used Joon Hansen advice to
    > ok boot cdrom -s
    > # mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
    > # devfsadm -r /a -p /a/etc/path_to_inst
    > # umount /a
    > # halt
    > ok boot -r
    >
    > Any help is appreciated.
    > George
    >
    > Rebooting with command: boot -r
    > Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args: -r
    > SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_117350-14 32-bit
    > Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
    > Cannot assemble drivers for root /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a
    > Cannot mount root on /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a fstype ufs
    >
    > panic[cpu0]/thread=10404000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
    >
    > 10403bb8 genunix:vfs_mountroot+68 (10424c00, 0, 0, 400, 80, 0)
    > %l0-7: 10424c00 10427828 00000000 bf000000 00000000 1040b7d4 0009fcaf 00000000
    > 10403c18 genunix:main+8c (1, 2000, 1, ff00, fff2, f02)
    > %l0-7: 10404000 0000f010 00248000 1041c530 10451098 00266c82 000b6470 00000000
    >
    > skipping system dump - no dump device configured
    > rebooting...
    > Resetting ...
    >
    >
    > Any help you have to offer would be appreciated.
    > George
    >
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