From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 12:00:09 EDT
All is well. I noticed that when it booted that it couldn't find /usr.
When the system was restored from backup, the restorer made a mistake
restoring /usr and in the process of fixing it he apparently deleted
/usr.
Booting to single user as many of you suggested, mounting / and mkdir
/usr fixed the problem.
It turns out that the system doesn't care what you call the domain when
you make it on another system. As long as everything is in place on the
original system it will use the links to get the correct domain name.
Thanks again to all the many people who helped.
Regards,
Peter
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> From peter Tue Jul 20 18:21:02 2004
> Subject: SUMMARY (almost): XP1000 won't boot (again)
> To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:21:02 +0300 (IDT)
> From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
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> I would like to thank the many people who replied and offered
> suggestions and encouragement. In the end, having checked the cabling
> several times, I disconnected both the power and scsi connections and
> replaced them with a different set. This did the trick and the disk was
> recognized.
>
> The system booted, however I now get the message:
> INIT: Command is repawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
> id: cons "/usr/sbin/getty console console vt100"
>
> I suppose soembody knows the answer too this.
>
> Here's a clue. When I restored the disk, I made the advfs domains
> root and usr. In fstab it uses the original, root_domain and
> usr_domain. Is this the problem? How do I fix it? Put the disk back
> into the other system and edit fstab and fdmsn?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
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> > From peter Tue Jul 20 17:32:45 2004
> > Subject: XP1000 won't boot (again)
> > To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
> > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:32:45 +0300 (IDT)
> > From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
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> > I bought a new 36GB disk, put it into another workstation, labeled the
> > disk, made the AdvFS domains and filesets and restored the system from
> > the workstation with the broken disk (yes the disk is broken).
> >
> > Then I replaced the broken system disk with the new one and tried to
> > boot. I get the same message as before:
> > >>> (boot dka0.0.0.6.1 -flags a)
> > >>> failed to open dka0.0.0.6.1
> >
> > What am I missing here?
> >
> > >>> sho dev
> > doesn't show the disk.
> >
> > In the workstation where I did the restore, I jumpered the disk to be
> > rz1. In the original workstation I left it as rz0 as was the original
> > disk.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
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> > > From peter Sun Jul 11 19:05:49 2004
> > > Subject: SUMMARY: XP1000 won't boot
> > > To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
> > > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:05:49 +0300 (IDT)
> > > From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
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> > > Thanks to the three Toms:
> > > Thomas Sjolshagen and Dr Thomas Blinn of HP and Tom Linden.
> > >
> > > As I suspected it is either a bad disk or a bad SCSI controller, most
> > > probably the disk. I will carry out the suggestions offered to see
> > > which it is (e.g. add another disk to see if it is recognized).
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Peter
> > >
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> > > > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:03:41 +0300 (IDT)
> > > > From: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
> > > > Subject: XP1000 won't boot
> > > > To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
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> > > > Hi:
> > > >
> > > > We have a five year old Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000 (Tru64
> > > > Unix v4.0f) which crashed and won't reboot. It gives the message:
> > > > (boot dka0.0.0.6.1 -flags a)
> > > > failed to open dka0.0.0.6.1
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Peter Stern
> > > > Chemical Physics Department
> > > > Weizmann Institute of Science
> > > > 76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
> > > >
> > > > email: Peter.Stern@weizmann.ac.il
> > > > phone: 972-8-9342096
> > > > fax: 972-8-9344123
> > > >
> > >
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