SUMMARY: E10000 boot disk - failing to boot it on a E420

From: Filipe Litaiff <filipe_litaiff_at_optiglobe.com.br>
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 08:31:26 EST
Hi,

Thanks to Buddy Lumpkin, who nailed the problem:

"Yes, you can create the symlink. In Solaris 8 or later, the entire
distribution plus OEM support should create all of these directories, but in
previous versions it did not. So install a fresh boot block (cd
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs; installboot bootsd /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
(substitute proper boot device)) then since you followed Anand's procedure,
use the appropriate find|cpio command to copy over /usr/platform: (cd
/usr/platform ; find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmu /a/usr/platform)

Regards,

--Buddy"

Also thanks again to Anand Chouthai.

Regards,

Filipe Litaiff



-----Original Message-----

	Hi Fellow Forumers,

	Few weeks ago I submitted a question about trying to boot an originally
E10000 installed boot disk on other platform.

	The feedback was great, and thanks again to those who shared their
experience.

	But... when we tried it in real life some weird and unexpected things are
happening.

	The procedure consists basically by the following:


	***
	  cd /a
	   mv dev dev.dr
	   mv devices devices.dr
	   mkdir dev devices
	   cd /dev
	   find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /a/dev
	   cd /devices
	   find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /a/devices
	   cd /a/etc
	   mv path_to_inst path_to_inst.dr
	   cp /tmp/root/etc/path_to_inst .
	   change the vfstab to appropriate disk config
	   If the E10000 disk was encapsulated then take the rootdev entries out
	   from system file
	   install bootblk on the disk
	   cd /a/etc
	   mv ssphostname ssphostname.dr
	   init 0
	   ok> boot  -rasvw
	***

	After all steps done, got the message "The file just loaded does not appear
to be executable"

	SunSolve says that the cause of this message is "The boot block is missing
or
corrupted."

	I4ve reinstalled but the problem persists on the E420.

	- I followed the /usr/platform and /platform directories and noticed that my
E10000 hasn4t all sun4u directories :

	[root@lab2 /a/platform]# ls -l
	total 6
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Aug 16  1999
SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb  1 12:39 sun4u1
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Aug 16  1999 tadpole4m

	[root@lab2 /a/usr/platform]# ls -l
	total 12
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           6 Mar  3 14:30
SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000 -> sun4u1
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Aug 16  1999 sun4c
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Aug 16  1999 sun4d
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Aug 16  1999 sun4m
	drwxr-xr-x   4 root     sys          512 Jan 27  2000 sun4u
	drwxr-xr-x   5 root     sys          512 Aug 17  1999 sun4u1

	[root@lab2 /a/usr/platform]# ls -l sun4u
	total 4
	drwxr-xr-x   4 bin      bin          512 Aug 16  1999 include
(doesn4t have lin dir)
	drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 May 24  2002 sbin
	[root@lab2 /a/usr/platform]# ls -l sun4u1
	total 6
	drwxr-xr-x   4 bin      bin          512 Aug 17  1999 include
	drwxr-xr-x   4 bin      bin          512 Feb 18  2001 lib
	drwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin          512 Feb  1 12:12 sbin

	- In the new E420 "DR" computer, I have :

	[root@lab2 /platform]# ls -l
	total 52
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima1 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima2 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:45 FJSV,GP -> sun4u
	drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-1
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:51 SUNW,Ultra-1-Engine
	drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-2
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:56 SUNW,Ultra-250
	drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-30
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-4
	drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-5_10
	drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-60
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 11:22 SUNW,Ultra-80 -> sun4u
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:45 SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:51 SUNW,UltraAX-MP
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:50
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:51
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,8000 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,Ultra-2i -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U2MP_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX2_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX4_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_i_Series -> sun4u
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 12:20 sun4u
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:57 tadpole4m


	[root@lab2 /usr/platform]# ls -l
	total 56
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima1 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:45 Axil-Ultima2 -> sun4u
	drwxrwxr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:45 FJSV,GP
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-1 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:46 SUNW,Ultra-1-Engine ->
sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-2 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-250 ->
sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-30 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-4 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-5_10 ->
sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-60 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 11:22 SUNW,Ultra-80 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
-> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:46 SUNW,UltraAX-MP ->
sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:46
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:46
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,8000 -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44 TSBW,Ultra-2i -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U2MP_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX2_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX4_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_UX_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_U_Series -> sun4u
	lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           5 Feb 24 10:44
TWS,COMPstation_i_Series -> sun4u
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4c
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4d
	drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4m
	drwxr-xr-x   5 root     sys          512 Feb 24 10:50 sun4u

	[root@lab2 /usr/platform]# ls -l sun4u
	total 6
	drwxr-xr-x   4 bin      bin          512 Feb 24 10:50 include
	drwxr-xr-x   5 bin      bin          512 Feb 24 11:56 lib
	drwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin          512 Feb 24 12:03 sbin

	Question: Can I  create a "SUNW Ultra-80" link to sun4u1 in the "real boot
disk" ?


	 Can I create a separated sun4u directory ?

	Thanks in advance,

	Filipe.
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