THIRD POSTING (LOOKING FOR HELP). SEE PROBLEM DESCRIPTION BELOW
(Because there were no answers to my previous two posts below on this
same topic). Please email me with any answers, since I cross posted in hopes
of finding an answer. I will post-back good results. The email address is:
nmvega at ComputingArchitects.Com
Hi:
After moving my USB drive (on which the O/S is installed) from one USB
port to another on my laptop, I need to reconfigure/re-order the Solaris
10 x86 (nv48) device trees so that it can boot again. Right now,
it does not boot as attached to the new USB port.
So as shown below, I performed the standard reconfiguration
steps I have many times over the years, yet they do not seem
to be enough on Solaris 10 x86. Here they are. What did
I miss (TIA!):
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Step 1) boot to failsafe ramdisk based O/S
Step 2) mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /a
Step 3) (see rest that follows)...
rm -f /a/dev/dsk/*
rm -f /a/dev/rdsk/*
rm -f /a/etc/path_to_inst
(I never "rm" the /devices tree; I only append to it)
cp /tmp/root/etc/path_to_inst /a/etc/path_to_inst
cd /dev/dsk; find . | cpio -pudm /a/dev/dsk
cd /dev/rdsk; find . | cpio -pudm /a/dev/rdsk
cd /devices; find . | cpio -pudm /a/devices
vi /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc (adjust the bootpath directive).
/sbin/bootadm update_archive -v -R /a
# And for good measure, I also did this:
cd /a/boot/grub
installgrub ./stage1 ./stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
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So after doing all that and rebooting, I get the GRUB menu
and select Solaris to boot normally. What happens? The initial
Solaris banner shows up (and nothing else). It just hangs
forever. I specified "-v" to the kernel line within GRUB, and
I see its gets to the "PCI Express device line (early)", and
thats it (it goes no further).
Did I miss something?
Thanks,
Noel Milton Vega
nmvega at ComputingArchitects.Com
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