From: Ivan Fetch (ifetch@du.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 15:52:16 EST
HI Sun Managers,
Booting Solaris 7 from a new disk is giving us the following:
SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-34 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V
Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "
INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S): s
will change to state s
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
Booting from CD, I can see that //var/adm permissions aren't an issue,
and I've tried moving utmp and utmpx out of the way as well:
# ls -lad /a/var /a/var/adm /a/var/adm/utmp /a/var/adm/utmpx
drwxr-xr-x 28 root sys 512 Dec 20 22:58 /a/var
drwxrwxr-x 7 root sys 512 Jan 4 10:10 /a/var/adm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 0 Jan 4 10:10 /a/var/adm/utmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 0 Jan 4 10:10 /a/var/adm/utmpx
(longer story...)
We had a disk go bad on an ultra10 running Solaris 7, and to attempt
to get things running quicly we connected an external SCSI disk and restored from tape.
Instead of creating separate /var, /opt, and /export/home partitions, we
restored all partitions into a single 7 Gb root filesystem.
We changed vfstab to reflect the new partition (instead of multiple
mounts from c0t0d0 we just have / on c1t3d0), and rebuilt devices (because
the c1t3 devices did not exist) with:
drvconfig -r /a/devices -p /a/etc/path_to_inst
devlinks -r /a
disks -r /a
tapes -r /a
Installed the boot block with
# cd /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs
# installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s0
A devalias was configured for the new boot device as follows:
ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4
Target 3
Unit 0 Disk FUJITSU MAB3091S SUN9.0G1705
Target 4
Unit 0 Removable Tape Qualifier 40 HP C1557A U007
Unit 1 Removable Device type 8 Qualifier 40 HP C1557A
U0
07
Target 5
Unit 0 Disk FUJITSU MAA3182S SUN18G 2107
ok show-disks
a) /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd
b) /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom
c) /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk
d) /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree@14,3023f0
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: a
ok nvalias disk4 /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd@3,0
ok boot disk4
One other interesting thing, is that before I recreated /devices and
/dev, booting from the disk complained about being unable to fsck because
c1t3d0s0 devices did not exist. It did then let me get a single user
shell, and mount showed all of the old c0t0 mounts even though I'd edit
vfstab.
Any assistance with this is greatly appreciated - what is it we've
missed?
Thanks,
Ivan Fetch.
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