I have a Sun V480 server running Solaris 9. The server has two 36GB internal drives that are mirrored using Veritas Volume Mgr (version unknown). The primary rootdrive has failed and I cannot get the system to boot off the rootmirror drive. Below are further details I am able to see by booting into single user mode off of the Solaris 9 cd.
1) ERROR: OpenBoot Diagnostics failed
The following two warnings...does this indicate a failed NIC card or that perhaps there is no network cable in those particular ports??
WARNING: Device /pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@2,1 being marked with 'status' == fail
WARNING: Device /pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@1,1 being marked with 'status' == fail
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom -s
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/ide@6/cdrom@0,0:f File and args: -s
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-07 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
WARNING: status 'fail' for '/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@1,1'
WARNING: status 'fail' for '/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@2,1'
WARNING: Device ssd1 failed to power up.
WARNING: Please see your system administrator or reboot.
WARNING: Device ssd1 failed to power up.
WARNING: Please see your system administrator or reboot.
Configuring /dev and /devices
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Skipping interface fcip0
Skipping interface ce1
2) Once in single user mode, I ran the command: "echo | format" to view the disks...
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0 <*drive not available*>
/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cf96d267,0
1. c1t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000004cf96cd2b,0
iostat -En also revealed that device c1t1d0 has 8 "Hard Errors"
3) From the "ok" prompt, printenv shows the following information for the disks
boot-device rootdisk rootmirror
If I attempt to perform a "boot rootmirror" from the ok prompt, I get the following message:
Rebooting with command: boot rootmirror
Boot device: /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w21000004cf96cd2b,0:a File an d args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
4) Here is the output from my attempt to fsck the good drive...
fsck -y /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
** /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;
So, I use the newfs command to view available super blocks as follows:
newfs -N /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
Warning: cylinder groups must have a multiple of 16 cylinders with the given
parameters
Rounded cgsize up to 256
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0: 16779312 sectors in 5808 cylinders of 27 tracks, 107 sectors
8193.0MB in 182 cyl groups (32 c/g, 45.14MB/g, 5632 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
32, 92592, 185152, 277712, 370272, 462832, 555392, 647952, 740512, 833072,
15902432, 15994992, 16087552, 16180112, 16272672, 16365232, 16457792,
16550352, 16642912, 16735472,
Attempts to use any of the above super blocks doesn't appear to work...see sample output as follows:
fsck -F ufs -o b=16180112 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
Alternate super block location: 16180112.
** /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;
eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]
where # is the alternate super block. SEE fsck_ufs(1M).
Any help would be appreciated, my goal here obviously is to see if I can boot from the mirrored drive and then I will get the other drive replaced.
I found this document: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/233187.htm , but since I am having to boot into single user mode from the cdrom drive, the /dev/vx/.... path isn't available to me. I did find a copy of the vfstab that I will post below. This copy of the vfstab I had saved off to another system for safe keeping.
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 yes -
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/vx/dsk/swapvol - - swap - no -
/dev/vx/dsk/rootvol /dev/vx/rdsk/rootvol / ufs 1 no logging
/dev/vx/dsk/var /dev/vx/rdsk/var /var ufs 1 no logging
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes size=2048m
#NOTE: volume rootvol (/) encapsulated partition c1t0d0s0
#NOTE: volume swapvol (swap) encapsulated partition c1t0d0s1
#NOTE: volume var (/var) encapsulated partition c1t0d0s5
and here is a saved output of the df command:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/rootvol 4129290 1443242 2644756 36% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/vx/dsk/var 4129290 471328 3616670 12% /var
swap 16817272 32 16817240 1% /var/run
swap 2097152 88 2097064 1% /tmp
and finally, a vxdisk list output that had been saved off prior to the drive failure
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c1t0d0s2 sliced rootdisk rootdg online
c1t1d0s2 sliced rootmirror rootdg online
