SUMMARY: Need help with SS5 <-> SS20

From: Christian Masopust (Christian.Masopust@tmn.sie.siemens.at)
Date: Tue May 13 1997 - 01:53:21 CDT


First of all I want to apologize for the not correct subject and for
the fact that I didn't search the archive of sun-managers.... but
I was in a little hurry, users were waiting for their data ... :-)

Do you know that the members of sun-managers are faster than e-mail ??
(I got many responses before I got the copy of my question ... :-)

And as you can see with that smileys above, you solved my problem.

Thanks goes to:
Charles Gagnon Charles@Grafnetix.COM
Jens Fischer fischjns@kat.ina.de
Volker Sander V.Sander@kfa-juelich.de
Stephen Harris sweh@mpn.com
Caspar Dik caspar@holland.Sun.COM
Charles Homan choman@applic.com
K. Ravi RAVKRISH.IN.ORACLE.COM.ofcmail@in.oracle.com
Luca Pizzinato pizzinato@eumetsat.de
Tim Buller buller@math.ukans.edu
Brett Lymn blymn@awadi.com.au
Gary White Gary.White@ramstein.af.mil
Marina Daniels Marina.Daniels@ccd.tas.gov.au
....

Original question:

> I've a Sparcstation 5 wich has been crashed (problem with cpu...)
> So I tried to move the boot-disk to a new Sparcstation 20 and tried
> to boot, no success!
>
> The root-filesystem is recognized (I think so), but the Sparcstation 20
> cannot mount the /usr-filesystem! (The disk on another Sparc5 is working
> (but I cannot access the other Sparc5 for a longer time ...)
>
> Can anyone help on moving my boot-disk from Sparc5 to a Sparc20 ??

Solution(s):

----
  1. swapped in the 20, using the OS disk from the SPARC 5.
  2. boot single user to the solaris cd. (boot cdrom -sw)
  3. mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a   (assuming the boot disk is target 3)
  4. cd /tmp/dev; tar cvfp - . | (cd /a/dev; tar xvfp -)
  5. cd /tmp/devices; tar cvfp - . | (cd /a/devices; tar xvfp -)
  6. cd /tmp/root/etc
  7. cp path_to_inst /a/etc/path_to_inst
  8. halt
  9. boot -r
----

---- What you need to do is change the board, boot from cdrom and mount the disk (say on /a). Remove the contents of the /a/dev and /a/devices directories. Copy /etc/path_to_inst to /a/etc/path_to_inst. Then do:

drvconfig -p /a/etc/path_to_inst -r /a devlinks -r /a disks -r /a ----

---- Check out the summaries at "http://www.dataman.nl/cgi-bin/sunmanagers" This has been answered in good detail a few times. ----

---- echo "#path_to_inst_bootstrap_1" > /etc/path_to_inst Followed by "boot -r" ----

---- Boot from CD; Mount rootdisk on /a; mv /a/etc/path_to_inst /a/etc/path_to_inst.old cp /etc/path_to_inst /a/etc cd /devices rm -rf * cd /dev rm -rf * drvconfig -p /a/etc/path_to_inst -r /a disks -r /a reboot -- -r ----

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