Replacing a failed bootdisk

In the following example, the host has a failed bootdisk (c0t0d0). Fortunately, the system is using DiskSuite, with a mirror at c0t1d0. The following sequence of steps can be used to restore the system to full redundancy.


System Fails to Boot

When the system attempts to boot, it fails to find a valid device as required by the boot-device path at device alias "disk". It then attempts to boot from the network:


screen not found

Can't open input device

Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.


Sun Ultra 30 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-II 296MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.27, 512 MB memory installed, serial #9377973,Ethernet address 8:0:20:8f:18:b5, Host ID: 808f18b5


Initializing Memory

Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet

Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet

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