Autoboot Failure

From: Adam Smith (adamsmith_at_econ.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:39:10 -0700

Hello,

System disk (18 Gb) failure on Octane machine. Replaced w/ new
(36 Gb)disk, formatted, partitioned and reinstalled. worked fine, then
restored files from backup tapes. Partitioning was not exactly like
original and one partitioned was impacted - 100% full - system went down
again. Repartitioned / resized with fx --x in expert mode. On restarting
sys drops to single user mode ==> command prompt and displays the
following error message ===>
  Autoboot failed
  Unable to execute xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)partition(0)/unix: media
   not loaded
  Hit Enter to continue

Doing so returns screen to Menu (Command Prompt). Thought I had
compromised my volume headers but did a dvhtools and all the contents
seemed OK, the partitions, geometry, sgilabel etc. all present.

What could be causing this, and how can I correct this?

-- Adam --

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