SUMMARY: SDS and alternate boot partition

From: NBP (kwave@kineticwave.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 13:40:59 CST


I needed to run installboot on the other root partition
and changed backup_root nvalias to specify disk@0,0 not
sd@0,0.

Thanks for all your quick responses!!

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n b p . k i n e t i c w a v e . c o m
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        . i'd rather be in italy.

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, NBP wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> I've installed Solstice Disk Suite 4.0 on a
> Solaris 2.6 E450. I've mirrored the root
> partition (c0t0d0s0) to c2t0d0s0.
>
> #ls -l /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 8 11:45
> /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@6,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0:a,raw
>
> I went to sent up an alternate nvalias using the following command
> in PROM mode:
>
> nvalias backup_root /pci@6,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0:a
>
> However, when I do a boot backup_root it tells me it cannot
> find a boot file. Does anyone have any ideas on this one?
>
> TIA,
> N
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> n b p . k i n e t i c w a v e . c o m
> . . . . . . . .
> . i'd rather be in italy.
>
>



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