Hey Daniel, nope boot disks are internal, but being a V880 also have
dual paths so may be part of the cause. will look into enabling mpxio
just for the san disks. not sure about stmsboot, but doubt it as sun
not developing sol8 anymore, thanks. rob

Daniel Rock wrote:
> rob@tosland.com wrote:
> > I managed to get the machine up and running again via booting from
> > cdrom and disabling mpxio again.
> >
> > Can anyone give me some help on this??
>
> Do you boot from SAN?
>
> Seems like the boot disks have also MPxIO enabled. With MPxIO enabled the
> disks get new device paths, but these aren't (yet) available.
> Try disabling MPxIO on a per adapter basis (see the manual page for fp(7d))
>
> Is stmsboot(1M) already available in Solaris 8? I just have Solaris 10
> systems here at reference. If stmsboot is there you could try to
> call "stmsboot -e" instead of editing scsi_vhci.conf directly.
>
> --
> Daniel