SUMMARY: df -k reports wrong disc after boot failure

From: <Chris.Young_at_edl.uk.eds.com>
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 10:51:28 EST
Unfortuntely, I was unable to find a solution to the problem below.

Thanks to the following people who offered their advice and assistance with
this problem:

Casper Dik
Mark Andrews
Darren Dunham
Eugene Schmidt
Jim Seymour


Chris Young
EDS Defence Ltd.
Communications & Messaging Group
chris.young@edl.uk.eds.com

> -----Original Message----- 
> 
> Hello Gurus!
> 
> I am experiencing a problem with a Sun Ultra 10 running 
> Solaris 2.6. Upon
> booting, I get an UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY error from fsck 
> when it tries to
> check /. Every subsequent filesystem check also fails for the 
> same reason.
> This causes the boot process to fail.
> 
> When I login in single-user mode, df -k seems to think that 
> every mount is
> using /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s?. instead of /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s?. 
> Additionally, format
> gives a 'No Disks Found!' error, even though probe-ide 
> correctly identifies
> the disc (a single 18.64GB IDE) at the OpenBoot prompt. 
> /etc/vfstab, /dev
> and /devices are all set up correctly.
> 
> Bizarrely, if I boot from CD-ROM, I can fsck the disc and 
> mount all of the
> partitions  without any trouble at all, and format detects 
> the disc properly
> too.
> 
> This problem is preventing a system update from going out so 
> any suggestions
> as to what may be causing it, and how to resolve it would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Chris
> 
> Chris Young
> EDS Defence Ltd.
> Communications & Messaging Group
> chris.young@edl.uk.eds.com
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