From: Filipe Litaiff (filipe_litaiff@optiglobe.com.br)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 08:22:57 EST
Hi,
Thanks to Buddy Lumpkin, who nailed the problem:
"Yes, you can create the symlink. In Solaris 8 or later, the entire
distribution plus OEM support should create all of these directories, but in
previous versions it did not. So install a fresh boot block (cd
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs; installboot bootsd /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
(substitute proper boot device)) then since you followed Anand's procedure,
use the appropriate find|cpio command to copy over /usr/platform: (cd
/usr/platform ; find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmu /a/usr/platform)
Regards,
--Buddy"
Also thanks again to Anand Chouthai.
Regards,
Filipe Litaiff
-----Original Message-----
Hi Fellow Forumers,
Few weeks ago I submitted a question about trying to boot an originally
E10000 installed boot disk on other platform.
The feedback was great, and thanks again to those who shared their
experience.
But... when we tried it in real life some weird and unexpected things are
happening.
The procedure consists basically by the following:
***
cd /a
mv dev dev.dr
mv devices devices.dr
mkdir dev devices
cd /dev
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /a/dev
cd /devices
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /a/devices
cd /a/etc
mv path_to_inst path_to_inst.dr
cp /tmp/root/etc/path_to_inst .
change the vfstab to appropriate disk config
If the E10000 disk was encapsulated then take the rootdev entries out
from system file
install bootblk on the disk
cd /a/etc
mv ssphostname ssphostname.dr
init 0
ok> boot -rasvw
***
After all steps done, got the message "The file just loaded does not appear
to be executable"
SunSolve says that the cause of this message is "The boot block is missing
or
corrupted."
I4ve reinstalled but the problem persists on the E420.
- I followed the /usr/platform and /platform directories and noticed that my
E10000 hasn4t all sun4u directories :
[root@lab2 /a/platform]# ls -l
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Aug 16 1999
SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 1 12:39 sun4u1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Aug 16 1999 tadpole4m
[root@lab2 /a/usr/platform]# ls -l
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 3 14:30
SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000 -> sun4u1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Aug 16 1999 sun4c
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Aug 16 1999 sun4d
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Aug 16 1999 sun4m
drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 512 Jan 27 2000 sun4u
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 512 Aug 17 1999 sun4u1
[root@lab2 /a/usr/platform]# ls -l sun4u
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 512 Aug 16 1999 include
(doesn4t have lin dir)
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 May 24 2002 sbin
[root@lab2 /a/usr/platform]# ls -l sun4u1
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 512 Aug 17 1999 include
drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 512 Feb 18 2001 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Feb 1 12:12 sbin
- In the new E420 "DR" computer, I have :
[root@lab2 /platform]# ls -l
total 52
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima1 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima2 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:45 FJSV,GP -> sun4u
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:51 SUNW,Ultra-1-Engine
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:56 SUNW,Ultra-250
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-30
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-5_10
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-60
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 11:22 SUNW,Ultra-80 -> sun4u
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:51 SUNW,UltraAX-MP
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:50
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:51
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,8000 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,Ultra-2i -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U2MP_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX2_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX4_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_i_Series -> sun4u
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 12:20 sun4u
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:57 tadpole4m
[root@lab2 /usr/platform]# ls -l
total 56
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima1 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima2 -> sun4u
drwxrwxr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:45 FJSV,GP
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-1 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:46 SUNW,Ultra-1-Engine ->
sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-2 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-250 ->
sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-30 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-4 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-5_10 ->
sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-60 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 11:22 SUNW,Ultra-80 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
-> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:46 SUNW,UltraAX-MP ->
sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:46
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:46
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,8000 -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,Ultra-2i -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U2MP_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX2_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX4_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U_Series -> sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_i_Series -> sun4u
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4c
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4d
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4m
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4u
[root@lab2 /usr/platform]# ls -l sun4u
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 512 Feb 24 10:50 include
drwxr-xr-x 5 bin bin 512 Feb 24 11:56 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Feb 24 12:03 sbin
Question: Can I create a "SUNW Ultra-80" link to sun4u1 in the "real boot
disk" ?
Can I create a separated sun4u directory ?
Thanks in advance,
Filipe.
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