Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Troubleshooting Guide - Solaris

To boot the system without Veritas Volume Manager rootability and restore the configuration files

1. Boot the operating system into single-user mode from its installation CD-ROM using the following command at the boot prompt:

     ok boot cdrom -s

2. Mount/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 on a suitable mount point such as /a or /mnt:

    # mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a

3. If a backup copy of/etc/system is available, restore this as the file /a/etc/system. If a backup copy is not available, create a new /a/etc/system file. Ensure that /a/etc/system contains the following entries that are required by VxVM:

     set vxio:vol_rootdev_is_volume=1
     forceload: drv/driver
     ...
     forceload: drv/vxio
     forceload: drv/vxspec
     forceload: drv/vxdmp
     rootdev:/pseudo/vxio@0:0

   Lines of the form forceload: drv/driver are used to forcibly load the drivers that are required for the root mirror disks. Example driver names are pci, sd, ssd, dad and ide. To find out the names of the drivers, use the ls command to obtain a long listing of the special files that correspond to the devices used for the root disk, for example:

   # ls -al /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2

   This produces output similar to the following (with irrelevant detail removed):

     lrwxrwxrwx ... /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 ->
     ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd@0,0:c

   This example would require lines to force load both the pci and the sd drivers:

     forceload: drv/pci
     forceload: drv/sd

4. Shut down and reboot the system from the same root partition on which the configuration files were restored.