Thank you to all those who sent me answers and helpful things to try.
(And I'll even say thanks to those who said the question was asked and
answered already -- I searched the archives looking for an answer and found
nil; but thanks anway!)
The solution was to use the following command to create a bootable ADVFS disk:
disklabel -wr -t advfs rz19 hsz50 /mdec/rzboot.advfs /mdec/bootrz.advfs
Some people, in providing me with the above command, mentioned that I could
leave off the .advfs and just use
disklabel -wr -t advfs rz19 hsz50
This worked, and the system booted up normally after I did it. Of course, I
had to re-copy everything over once I did this, since it changed around my
partitions.
Some folks asked how I did the copy. I just used the following (after the
disk label, above):
mkfdmn /dev/rz19a newroot_dmn
mkfset newroot_dmn#root
mount newroot_dmn#root /newroot
cd /newroot
vdump -0 -f - / | vrstore -xf -
And I repeated this for /usr and /var. Then, I had to go into the /newroot
and make some modifications, like /sbin/swapdefault (made it point to
/dev/rz19b instead of the actual root disk, which was /dev/rz25b). I also
moved the links in /etc/fdmns to point to the new rz19 disk.
Then I shutdown the system, did some quick copies of the log files is
/usr/adm/syslog.dated and /var/log (we log our stuff there), and booted off
of rz19 and it worked like a champ.
Later, I changed the bootdef_dev parameter at the eprom to reflect the new
disk.
>>> set bootdef_dev dkd100.1.0.5.1
(Here's a question: where do those numbers AFTER the DKD100 come from?
The
system told me what they were (by looking at the booted_dev eprom
variable), but
where do they come from?)
And now we are a hummin'
In addition, there were a few people who asked if it was OKAY to use a disk
off a HSZ to boot a system. The answer from Compaq seems to be yes, but it
can complicate things in the future. Using a local (KZPSA) attached disk is
preferred.
We intend to go back to a local disk soon, but since we were experiencing
problems with our disks there we had to resort to using the HSZ disks. I
haven't noticed any performance problems since the change. In fact, my guess
would be that it should run a little faster, but that's another question.
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Unfortunately, since I'm using AOL, and since they delete any email that has
already been read after 3 days, I missed about 10 of the folks who provided
me with the quickest responses. Sorry about that. But, the following people
sent along helpful information:
rem_at_ams.org
JBeck_at_CareWiseinInc.com
oisin_at_sbcm.com
Davis_at_tessco.com
And, as a final note, a few people mentioned this question was already
answered. While I'm aware that there are a few searchable archives, the
interfaces on them are quite frustrating, at least to me (and one of them is
not in the US, which had very very slow access from here).
I'd think that when working with the company who owns the AltaVista search
engine software we'd at least have a chance of using it to retrieve
information on our list.
Traffic on this list could be greatly reduced if adequate searching of the
archives was available. Just my 2 cents.
Again, thanks to everyone!
Sue
Received on Sun Sep 26 1999 - 15:09:18 NZST