Re: Disksuite 4.2.1 problems

From: Anthony Mandic (ox_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:02:56 +1000

"K.Rimsen" wrote:

> I have been able to reboot it with both disks in place, but here is
> where I run into a problem:

        Both disks? It might help if you described your layout better.
        If you only have 2 disks, how does your meta state db layout
        look? Can you post the output of "metadb"?

> I bring it down to the OK prompt, remove disk 1 and replace it with a
> blank disk. Then I attempt to boot from disk 0. The following is the
> output I get:
...
> I did a search on "NOTICE: /: bad dir ino 630913 at offset 0: mangled
> entry" in various forms and eventually came up with a page that
> mentioned two adjecent partitions were overlapping. However, I have
> checked the partition table and there are no problems there. After
> that error, when I try to boot from it again, it gives the following
> error:
>
> *******
> ok boot sds-root
> Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args:
> Boot load failed.
> The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
> *******
>
> It seems that when that error occurs, something happens to the disk. I
> am completely lost and would appreciate any help.

        It could be due to the lack of majority consensus with the
        state db's.

> For anyone responding: Please be sure to read those instructions that
> I linked to. I know that you should not be able to boot with only half
> the state database replicas online. However, in those instructions, it
> gives a parameter that you can put in /etc/system to allow DiskSuite
> 4.2.1 to boot with only half the replicas online. I believe I tried an
> installation without this parameter, but I can't be sure at this
> point.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated... and remember, I'm an extreme newbie
> at this, so please explain HOW to do what you are proposing. Thanks in
> advance!

        I'm not proposing anything yet. Did you set that option in
        /etc/system? And did you have an equal number of state db's
        on both disks? Did you apply the latest SDS patch?

-am © 2003

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