I am brand new to DiskSuite, but I managed to get it installed and
working according to these instructions:
(http://unixway.com/vm/disksuite/mirroros.html).
I have been able to reboot it with both disks in place, but here is
where I run into a problem:
I bring it down to the OK prompt, remove disk 1 and replace it with a
blank disk. Then I attempt to boot from disk 0. The following is the
output I get:

*******
ok boot sds-root

Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args:

SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-13 64-bit

Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

WARNING: forceload of misc/md_trans failed

WARNING: forceload of misc/md_raid failed

WARNING: forceload of misc/md_hotspares failed

WARNING: forceload of misc/md_sp failed

NOTICE: /: bad dir ino 630913 at offset 0: mangled entry

panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: mod_hold_stub: Couldn't load stub module
misc/strplumb

00000000104078a0 genunix:mod_hold_stub+1a8 (1, ffffffff, 10412818,
10412808, 300001d5e10, 0)

%l0-3: 000000001045ead8 0000000000000000 00000300002d6ec0
0000000000000008

%l4-7: 00000000000000b0 0000000010412638 0000000000000000
0000000000000001
0000000010407950 unix:stubs_common_code+30 (0, 0, 0, 1, 10408004,
10407ffc)

%l0-3: 0000000010407219 00000000104072f1 000000001f000000
0000000010435e28

%l4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000010412818 00000000000b7798
0000000000001798
0000000010407a20 genunix:main+dc (10410160, 2000, 10407ec0, 10408030,
fff2, 1004ec8c)

%l0-3: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000015
0000000000000e9a

%l4-7: 0000000010428c38 0000000010462360 00000000000cd4c0
0000000000000540

syncing file systems... done
skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
Resetting ...
*******

I did a search on "NOTICE: /: bad dir ino 630913 at offset 0: mangled
entry" in various forms and eventually came up with a page that
mentioned two adjecent partitions were overlapping. However, I have
checked the partition table and there are no problems there. After
that error, when I try to boot from it again, it gives the following
error:

*******
ok boot sds-root
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args:
Boot load failed.
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
*******

It seems that when that error occurs, something happens to the disk. I
am completely lost and would appreciate any help.

For anyone responding: Please be sure to read those instructions that
I linked to. I know that you should not be able to boot with only half
the state database replicas online. However, in those instructions, it
gives a parameter that you can put in /etc/system to allow DiskSuite
4.2.1 to boot with only half the replicas online. I believe I tried an
installation without this parameter, but I can't be sure at this
point.

Any help is greatly appreciated... and remember, I'm an extreme newbie
at this, so please explain HOW to do what you are proposing. Thanks in
advance!

On 30 Jul 2003 12:32:18 -0700, K.Rimsen <google@3113.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the response.
>
>> Both disks? It might help if you described your layout better.
>> If you only have 2 disks, how does your meta state db layout
>> look? Can you post the output of "metadb"?
>
> I have an Ultra 60 with two internal hard drives, each 9GB capacity. I
> have set up drive 0 to be the OS drive with a / partition, a swap
> partition, then like 2 partitions of like 10MB each for the databases.
> I can't post the output just yet, because all the drives I did this on
> are trashed. I will reinstall/configure and I'll post it later on
> today or tomorrow.
>

Did you set up the one way mirrors first and then reboot using the new
metadevices before doing the metattach of the second submirror?

If not, this may have caused some corruption.

--
Barton Fisk

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"K.Rimsen" wrote:

> I have an Ultra 60 with two internal hard drives, each 9GB capacity. I
> have set up drive 0 to be the OS drive with a / partition, a swap
> partition, then like 2 partitions of like 10MB each for the databases.
> I can't post the output just yet, because all the drives I did this on
> are trashed. I will reinstall/configure and I'll post it later on
> today or tomorrow.

That's OK, I get the picture now. Rather than follow the doc
you cited originally, I would suggest following the SDS docs
at Sun's web site. The User's Guide has all the info you need.
It is a PDF doc with the name 806-3205.pdf. Start by using the
metadb command then the metaroot steps and reboot. Then the
rest.

> I did set that option in /etc/system. I also tried it once without the
> option, but I got the same problem. Each disk has 2 slices of 10MB
> each with 2 databases per slice.

Do you mean you are using soft partitions? Or are you referring
to the state db replicas? These don't take much space. Try a
3 MB slice for 2 replicas.

> I can't get the latest patch because
> I don't have a Sunsolve account... could that be it?

The patch number is 108693. With 16 being the latest revision.
Its hard to say if it will fix your problem but it does fix
quite a few bugs so I would recommend it.

-am © 2003