> > I am having a problem detecting an external scsi drive connected to the
> > scsi port on the system board of a SPARCstation 20 - Solaris 9 - SunOS
> > 5.9.  Also, I can no longer boot the system, even with this external
> > drive disconnected.

That's weird.  Have you successfully used the drive/enclosure on any
other system, and have you previously used that scsi controller on
this system?


> I am trying to reinstall the boot program in order to be able to boot
> this system.
> 
> ok boot cdrom -s
> # fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: FRAGS PER BLOCK OR FRAG SIZE WRONG
> USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;
> eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]
> where # is the alternate super block.  SEE fsck_ufs(1M).
>
> I looked at that man page on the web, but am not sure how to
> proceed.  I just ran the above command earlier today when fsck
> failed during a boot, without receiving that error message.

Try using alt superblock 32, and perhaps run with -n first to get an
idea how much trouble you might be in without accidentally making
things worse:
fsck -n -o b=32 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0
 
> After fsck runs successfully, I was going to restore the boot program
> from the installation cd as follows:
> 
> # cp /platform/`uname -i`/ufsboot /mnt/platform/`uname -i`
> 
> Any comments about this?

You probably need to run:
installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk  /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 


> 
> Thanks,
> Barry

Good luck,

-f
http://www.blackant.net/
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