Changing boot drive on 3500

From: Bill Voight (BVOIGHT@fcc.gov)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 13:17:45 EST


Sports fans,

I'm in upgrade hell. I'm trying to upgrade a 3500 from Solaris 7 to 8. The
existing boot drive is too small to take the upgrade (/var and /opt are only
about 125MB each). We found an 18GB drive to replace it, so I did the
following:

1). I put the new drive in an internal slot I cleared, partitioned and made
filesystems. I have upgraded 3500's successfully before, but never have I had
to remove a (non-system) drive from a slot and substitute another. Each of
the other upgraded boxes had at least one spare slot.
2:. I ufsdumped all the boot drive partitions to the new, larger ones. I
compared sizes of the copied partitions and all are almost exactly the same
size. I also manually reviewed critical segments of /usr and /var.
3). I installed the bootblock on the new drive.
4). I fsck'ed each partiton and all seem healthy.
5). I brought the machine down, removed the old drive, and put the larger one
in it's slot. I also replaced the drive I removed to make room for the new
one (it has no system partitions on it).
6). I rebooted the system and it recognized the drive, saw the OS, but can't
find the /usr partition.
7). I have rechecked all the new partitions several times and all seem
healthy to fsck when I boot from the old drive and mount the new drives
partitons by hand.
8). I compared eeprom settings (ver 3.2.29) and all appear as they were
before I started. Boot-device is socald as expected.

Any ideas? I will summarize.

The good news is that the machine comes right back up with the old boot drive
and (non-system) drive returned to their original places. I suspect there's
something to do with luxadm, but the fact that the system sees the operating
system, but not the /usr partiton is throwing me for a loop.

Bill Voight
UNIX System Engineer
NOVA Technology
(202) 418-0021
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