The problem was that the bootdisk was not on the default diskisp path.
In fact, the default diskisp path has no disks associated with it, unlike
our other 6000. I created an nvalias to the proper path, set it as my
boot-device, and all worked.
Original question below.
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Mark P. Beckman |"Oh yes. Those are the days when you
Technical Systems Analyst/SysAdmin | want to head back to Iowa, and become
GE Capital Fleet Services | a Pioneer seedcorn salesman."
beckman@bofh.fleet.capital.ge.com | --Dave Durnbaugh, former co-worker
My opinions/comments...Not GE's.
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, GECFS Sun-list wrote:
> We just obtained an Ultra 6000, and I'm experiencing a problem with the
> default boot device. Currently, the disk setup is two SSA's (with one
> containing c0t0d0) in expansion cabinets, and two RSM's inside the actual
> system cabinet. The RSMs will be the primary/mirror of the boot/system
> disks, and the RSM bootdisk is c1t0d0.
>
> Upon install, the install program complained a bit about c0t0d0 not being
> the default boot disk, but went ahead and installed on c1t0d0.
>
> However, upon reboot, OpenBoot attempted to boot from c0t0d0, and errored
> out with:
>
> Booting from: disksoc
> the file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
>
> A printenv of OpenBoot shows diag-switch? to be false. The default boot
> devices are: disk, diskbrd, diskisp,disk..
>
> Upon looking at the OpenBoot Command Guide, the above error appears to be
> a result of a bad bootblock. I'm wondering if this is actually the case,
> as I can boot from the actual bootdrive just fine manually.
>
> So, any comments or suggestions? Would a reinstall of the bootblock help,
> or is a fancy configuration of the boot-device required?
>
> Will summarize.
>
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> Mark P. Beckman |"Oh yes. Those are the days when you
> Technical Systems Analyst/SysAdmin | want to head back to Iowa, and become
> GE Capital Fleet Services | a Pioneer seedcorn salesman."
> beckman@bofh.fleet.capital.ge.com | --Dave Durnbaugh, former co-worker
> My opinions/comments...Not GE's.
>
>