[Summary] a clone panics on vfs_mountroot

From: Jacques Beigbeder (Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr)
Date: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 04:00:32 EST


Question was:
        I installed Solaris 9, and patches, and softwares,
        and printers and ... on a first Sun Blade 150.
        Then I cloned this installation to a second Blade 150:
        ...
        This second Blade fails to boot:
          Cannot assemble drivers for root /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0:0
          Cannot mount root on /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0:0 fstype ufs

          panic[cpu0]/thread=140a000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

The answer is: setenv boot-device disk
           or: setenv boot-device disk:a

The workstation was configured with a boot-device as disk:f
(some installation CD), so I wanted to correct and I set:
        setenv boot-device disk:0
(may be because nowadays slice are s0, s1, and so on).
Then the station loads the kernel but displays the message
        Cannot assemble drivers for root /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0:0
                                                                 ^^
A missing check somewhere? I'm allowed to set this, but it fails...

Thanks to:
        John Dewey
        Michael Horton
        Andris Martmne
        Drew Skinner

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