Gurus, Thank you to all who responded. My situation has been resolved and I am greatly appreciative. This list is such an incredible resource of talent. Below is my original post. I received a couple of different solutions to this problem. The most popular was the following: Before trying to boot from cdrom, try adding the following line to root's .exrc file... set dir=/tmp you will have to use a command like: # echo "set dir=/tmp" >>.exrc This should change the directory from /var/tmp to /tmp I did not use this approach. I used the following: 1. Put in Solaris disk 1 of 2. 2. Go to OK prompt. 3. run OK> boot cdrom -s Once in single user mode run the following: 4. fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 (only run this if the bottom steps don't work at first) 5. TERM=sun; export TERM 6. mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a 7. edit /a/etc/vfstab and correct your errors. > This worked for me and I was able to make the necessary changes and get my system to boot. Again... thank you all for your assistance. I don't even want to think about what I'd be doing if everyone didn't save my arse!!! Paul Fiengo > -----Original Message----- > From: Fiengo, Paul (Contractor) > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:10 PM > To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: Disk Suite / vfstab > > Gurus, > > In my haste of setting up a Disk Suite (4.2.1) mirror of my root disk, I > failed to properly modify my /etc/vfstab. I performed "metaroot" and am > able to boot to single-user mode. However, the system is unable to find > the remaining slices due to the following entries: > > /dev/md/dsk/c3t0d0s3 > /dev/md/dsk/c3t0d0s1 > /dev/md/dsk/c3t0d0s4 > > etc... > > As you can see I failed to rename the path with the mirror number. > Example: > > /dev/md/dsk/d30 > /dev/md/dsk/d10 > /dev/md/dsk/d40 > > Now PLEASE tell me there is a way to boot from cdrom to correct this > failure. I cannot vi /etc/vfstab because /var is one of the partitions > that it cannot locate and I need /var/tmp to open a temp copy of the > vfstab when I make my edits. I do not know how to boot from cdrom and > would need to know the steps to correct my obvious ignorance. I am > running Solaris 8 02/02 on a SunFire 280R. I have the latest patches > installed. I will summarize !!! > > Paul Fiengo _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Feb 18 14:05:43 2003
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