[ i'm resending this email which i originally sent on Oct 16 but got silently dropped due to local host mail configuration problems. ]
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:23:40PM -0700, Trevor Maggs wrote: > Anyone who knows the solution please tell me why I am having this problem? > > Motherboard: ASUS A7V133 x86 > OS: Solaris 10 3/05 > > I successfully copied root, /var, /opt and /home filesystems from the source > root disk (13GB) to the destination root disk (40GB UDMA) using "ufsdump 0f - > /dev/rdsk/c1d0sn | (cd /mnt; ufsrestore xf -)" couple questions: - in the example above, i assume the value of "n" used was 0? - what was the device path of target slice that was mounted at /mnt? (if it wasn't "s0" then you set bootpath incorrectly.) > > I then did the following steps: > > 1. fdisk -b /usr/lib/fs/ufs/mboot /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0 (new active boot disk) > 2. installboot /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/pboot > /usr/platform/i86pc/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0d0s2 > 3. Updated vfstab to point to the new disk slices > 4. Updated /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc to point to the right physical IDE > location of the new disk (ie change from setprop bootpath '/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:a' to > setprop bootpath '/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:a') > > I then rebooted and updated BIOS to boot from the new disk. > > The machine then hangs and I am seeing this error "Not a UFS file system". > > I looked everywhere on the Internet for useful tips but all said the same > thing, to make a disk bootable you need to run installboot which is exactly > what I did. > > So what went wrong? Anyone out there knows please tell me? Please help. > > Trevor > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
