I solved the problem myself.
The problem was that the bootdisk was not on the default diskisp path.
In fact, the default diskisp path has no disks associated with it, unlike
our other 6000. I created an nvalias to the proper path, set it as my
boot-device, and all worked.
Original question below.
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Mark P. Beckman |"Oh yes. Those are the days when you
Technical Systems Analyst/SysAdmin | want to head back to Iowa, and become
GE Capital Fleet Services | a Pioneer seedcorn salesman."
beckman@bofh.fleet.capital.ge.com | --Dave Durnbaugh, former co-worker
My opinions/comments...Not GE's.
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, GECFS Sun-list wrote:
> We just obtained an Ultra 6000, and I'm experiencing a problem with the
> default boot device. Currently, the disk setup is two SSA's (with one
> containing c0t0d0) in expansion cabinets, and two RSM's inside the actual
> system cabinet. The RSMs will be the primary/mirror of the boot/system
> disks, and the RSM bootdisk is c1t0d0.
>
> Upon install, the install program complained a bit about c0t0d0 not being
> the default boot disk, but went ahead and installed on c1t0d0.
>
> However, upon reboot, OpenBoot attempted to boot from c0t0d0, and errored
> out with:
>
> Booting from: disksoc
> the file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
>
> A printenv of OpenBoot shows diag-switch? to be false. The default boot
> devices are: disk, diskbrd, diskisp,disk..
>
> Upon looking at the OpenBoot Command Guide, the above error appears to be
> a result of a bad bootblock. I'm wondering if this is actually the case,
> as I can boot from the actual bootdrive just fine manually.
>
> So, any comments or suggestions? Would a reinstall of the bootblock help,
> or is a fancy configuration of the boot-device required?
>
> Will summarize.
>
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> Mark P. Beckman |"Oh yes. Those are the days when you
> Technical Systems Analyst/SysAdmin | want to head back to Iowa, and become
> GE Capital Fleet Services | a Pioneer seedcorn salesman."
> beckman@bofh.fleet.capital.ge.com | --Dave Durnbaugh, former co-worker
> My opinions/comments...Not GE's.
>
>
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