Solaris Help !!! - Replaced Hardisk not visible
Hallo guys, I am installation a Solaris machine (blade x6270) with x86 Solaris 10 OS. The chassis has only 1 blade server on slot0, the rest are empty. Two issues: 1. I managed to redirect keyboard, mouse and dvd-drive to my laptop (running Vista) as the machine came with neither - using Java ILOM GUI on NetMGT port. However the thing wont allow me to use serial-console simultaneously with the GUI redirection (which i really need) - it only allows me ILOM access on serial-console. Any ideas as to how I can use both serial-console cli and GUI redirect on NetMGT ? ILOM: -> start /SP/console start: Invalid target /SP/console -> start /CH/BL0/console start: Invalid target /CH/BL0/console 2. It happened that the single blade machine came with a faulty hdd on slot 1; so i installed solaris on the first hdd (slot 0) while i awaited the replacement from Oracle/Sun. When the new hdd arrived; plugged it in; the hdd is showing green-light ok; and can be seen at the bios. However; in the OS, the new hdd is not visible: bash# ls /dev/rdsk/*s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 bash#format 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0 Tried to do the following: bash#devfsadm bash#devfsadm -c disk bash#drvconfig Still nothing on slot 1: bash#format 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0 However, there is a change on the 'rawdisk' directory (you can see a new entry "c1t1d0s0") bash# ls /dev/rdsk/*s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0 ===== What am I overlooking here ? I understand that once the OS is installed, the OS might have some trouble seeing the new hdd. The new hdd LED light goes off on its own after about 30 min - probably because of idle time. 1. I need to mount and partition the new hdd 2. I need to mirror the new hdd partitions to be similar to old hdd partitions (but have different partition names) I have poured on several sites on the internet and most basically say the above; use 'devfsadm' and the use 'format' - however this doesnt seem to work to detect my second hdd on the format options. Thanks in advance. w/regards Stephen N.
show your data sets On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hallo guys,
I am installation a Solaris machine (blade x6270) with x86 Solaris 10 OS. The chassis has only 1 blade server on slot0, the rest are empty.
Two issues:
1. I managed to redirect keyboard, mouse and dvd-drive to my laptop (running Vista) as the machine came with neither - using Java ILOM GUI on NetMGT port. However the thing wont allow me to use serial-console simultaneously with the GUI redirection (which i really need) - it only allows me ILOM access on serial-console. Any ideas as to how I can use both serial-console cli and GUI redirect on NetMGT ?
ILOM: -> start /SP/console start: Invalid target /SP/console
-> start /CH/BL0/console start: Invalid target /CH/BL0/console
2. It happened that the single blade machine came with a faulty hdd on slot 1; so i installed solaris on the first hdd (slot 0) while i awaited the replacement from Oracle/Sun. When the new hdd arrived; plugged it in; the hdd is showing green-light ok; and can be seen at the bios.
However; in the OS, the new hdd is not visible:
bash# ls /dev/rdsk/*s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
bash#format 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
Tried to do the following:
bash#devfsadm bash#devfsadm -c disk bash#drvconfig
Still nothing on slot 1:
bash#format 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
However, there is a change on the 'rawdisk' directory (you can see a new entry "c1t1d0s0")
bash# ls /dev/rdsk/*s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
===== What am I overlooking here ? I understand that once the OS is installed, the OS might have some trouble seeing the new hdd. The new hdd LED light goes off on its own after about 30 min - probably because of idle time.
1. I need to mount and partition the new hdd 2. I need to mirror the new hdd partitions to be similar to old hdd partitions (but have different partition names)
I have poured on several sites on the internet and most basically say the above; use 'devfsadm' and the use 'format' - however this doesnt seem to work to detect my second hdd on the format options.
Thanks in advance.
w/regards Stephen N.
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try boot -r ... and are there any disk related messages in /var/adm/messages or dmesg ? and does /etc/path_to_inst show the device ? On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
@ Maina,
Please define 'data sets' ... i.e which command to fetch that..
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:11 PM, maina <dmaishe@gmail.com> wrote:
show your data sets
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Hallo, Thanks, managed to solve the problem. The OS was booting using a logical order of the virtual drives created in BIOS. Unfortunately this cannot be seen/changed from the normal BIOS; took me a while to figure how to use the WebBIOS and reconfigure/add the new logical drive. Rebooted; re-installed OS - but it brought an error "cannot find active partition" Rebooted; re-installed OS - this made made sure c0t0d0s0 has the / slice - but it brought a different error "Bad PBR Sig" Took more hours to find the solution - incidentally, the first virtual drive number fell on the 2nd hard-drive. Deleted the virtual drive on the 2nd hard-drive, finished installation to end; Got an error in the OS related to missing partitions on the 2nd hard-drive. Rebooted to WebBIOS and re-configured the virtual drive in 2nd hardisk - and prayed for the best. And incidentally that fixed the issue.
@ndungu, thank you for the information....I have learn something On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:58 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
Hallo,
Thanks, managed to solve the problem.
The OS was booting using a logical order of the virtual drives created in BIOS.
Unfortunately this cannot be seen/changed from the normal BIOS; took me a while to figure how to use the WebBIOS and reconfigure/add the new logical drive.
Rebooted; re-installed OS - but it brought an error "cannot find active partition"
Rebooted; re-installed OS - this made made sure c0t0d0s0 has the / slice - but it brought a different error "Bad PBR Sig"
Took more hours to find the solution - incidentally, the first virtual drive number fell on the 2nd hard-drive.
Deleted the virtual drive on the 2nd hard-drive, finished installation to end; Got an error in the OS related to missing partitions on the 2nd hard-drive.
Rebooted to WebBIOS and re-configured the virtual drive in 2nd hardisk - and prayed for the best.
And incidentally that fixed the issue.
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