[ This message posted to the comp.unix.tru64 newsgroup and mailed to the
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those who will see it multiple times... ]
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, I wrote:
> Loading vmunix
> text XXXXXXXXX <- (I can't recall the exact number displayed here)
> text short read <- (definitely indicative of a problem, but what?)
It's actually:
Loading vmunix
text 5058096
short read (text)
> Since the replacement disk was in the system originally as dsk2, I then
> went in and changed references to dsk1 to point to the new system disk:
After reading through some archived messages (on the Tru64-Unix-Managers
mailing list archive), where some people have essentially tried to do
the same thing, I concluded that changing just the references in
/etc/fdmns and the sysconfigtab was probably not sufficient. I undid
those changes and ran the following instead:
# dsfmgr -v running under my reloaded directory tree reported errors
# with missing device numbers, and one strange one about an incorrect
# minor number on /dev/scp_scsi). I had the system correct these
# errors:
chroot /mnt /sbin/dsfmgr -vF
# It then told me to run "dsfmgr -K" to remove the extraneous devuce
# files (the numbers here are definitely not related to either my
# original system disk or the replacement, so I'm quite sure this had
# nothing to do with my problem, but I felt it would make sense to make
# sure things are clean).
chroot /mnt /sbin/dsfmgr -K
# Now we want to remove the database entries for the failed disk:
chroot /mnt /sbin/hwmgr delete hwid 56
chroot /mnt /sbin/dsfmgr -R hwid 56
# and move the replacement disk to take its place:
chroot /mnt /sbin/dsfmgr -m dsk2 dsk1
I thought for sure this time I had figured out the problem, but then I
tried to reboot the system one more time, but unfortunately, I still get
the same result ("short read (text)") ...
I'm still hoping someone will see something I'm missing ...
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Sylvain Robitaille syl_at_alcor.concordia.ca
Systems analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Received on Fri Nov 01 2002 - 23:33:33 NZDT