I like to thank the following who offered their assistance:
Haesaerts, Corinne
John Losey
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Udo de Boer
Izzet Ergas
Dr. Thomas.Blinn_at_Compaq.com
Dan Harrington
MASSARDA_at_mail.suny.edu
Peter Reynolds
Original Post:
> Hello Managers:
>
> Just for experimental purposes, I have taken a dump of /root and /usr of
an
> ES-40 server which disks are from an HSZ80 array controller and restored
the
> dumps to another server that did not have an array controller. Obviously
> different hardware; the disks were of the same size of both servers.
> Obviously, restoring a dump from one server to another server with
different
> hardware can cause obstacles. My question is, is this possible and what
are
> the preliminary steps that I need to do if I want to do this in the near
> future?
>
> With the following steps below, it restored the root.dump however when I
> rebooted the server into single user mode to start restoring the /usr, it
> went to an infinite loop of trying to boot. Below are the steps and
messages
> upon booting.
bootdevice_parser: unknown protocol name 'SCSI'
setconf: Bootdevice parser failed to translate bootdevice SCSI 1 1 0 0 0 0
0.
panic (cpu 0): setconf: bootdevice_parser failed
DUMP: No primary swap, no explicit dumpdev.
Nowhere to put header, giving up.
halted CPU 0
halt code = 5
HALT instruc
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Solution:
Most all suggested that there is an issue with the kernel and suggested that
I rebuild the kernel. However I was not able to boot into "single user
mode". So I booted from the firmware prompt with the following command:
>>boot -fi /genvmunix -fl s
I then booted into single user mode, rebuilt the kernel and restored /usr.
Finally I was able to boot into multi-user mode; success.
Thanks all for your consideration.
Rodney
Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 16:23:22 NZST