rebuild 240v from scratch

I am rebuilding a Sunfire v240 system that had corrupt data on its boot
disks. This server is "server b" of an identical two server
configuration. Each server has 4 x 72Gb disks, and two of them are
boot disks. Each server has a primary boot and a mirror boot disk
(disk0 and disk1). System is running Solaris 10.

Originally "server b" would not boot and Sun hardware support came to
our site and diagnosed a failed disk. He said corrupt data had been
copied over to the mirror boot disk making system unbootable. I
replaced primary boot drive and installed Sol 9 (as it uses only 2
disks). My plan was to partition mirror boot drive on "server b" to
match our "server a" and ufsdump/ufsrestore over the network to the
mounted mirror boot partitions on "server b". Once I had mirror boot
disk bootable, I would boot from it and dd from one disk to the other.

Once system restore was complete, I modified the vfstab on mounted
mirror drive, /mnt/etc/vfstab, to point to correct disk and installed
bootblk. I tried to boot from disk1 and the system failed to boot and
panicked rebooting from primary boot disk. I have done some
investigation and I think it has to do with the meta devices.

boot message:

Cannot open mirrored root device, error 19
Cannot remount root on /pseudo/md@0:0,0,blk fstype ufs

panic[cpu1]/thread=180e000: vfs_mountroot: cannot remount root

My questions are, should I remove all reference to meta-devices
and install normally from scratch then add metadevice suppport,
or can I still have it boot from mirror with existing restored partitions.
Where is the boot path specified other than vfstab when using
metadevices? Or should I be trying to set up meta devices and let
OS think that primary boot has failed, thus forcing server to boot
from mirror drive. Which is this the correct path to head down?

Any help appreciated,

Mike Dundas


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