[OmniOS-discuss] beadm activate issue (and pkg update fails to install boot files)

[Tom Robinson]

On 24/09/14 15:58, Tom Robinson wrote:
> On 24/09/14 15:47, Tom Robinson wrote:
>> On 24/09/14 15:40, Tom Robinson wrote:
>>> On 24/09/14 15:35, Dan McDonald wrote:
>>>> On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:33 AM, Tom Robinson <tom.robinson at motec.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Dan, I can see where you're going with that idea. Should I pay any attention to:
>>>>>
>>>>> Partition 0 of the disk has an incorrect offset
>>>>> Unable to gather device information for /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0
>>>> That is a bit disturbing.
>>>>
>>>> What about the other one in the mirror?  c4t2d0s0 ?
>>> Nothing reported by beadm. I'm not sure if c4t3d0s0 is first or last according to installgrub. Is
>>> the only way to tell by running installgrub? I get nervous at this point. Also my next maintenance
>>> window will most likely not be until next week.
>>>
>>> In theory, installgrub shouldn't have any influence on the currently booted system, right?
>> Ok, since c4t3d0s0 IS failing to accept the installgrub here goes:
>>
>> # installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0
>> Partition 0 of the disk has an incorrect offset
>> Unable to gather device information for /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0
>>
>> and
>>
>> # installgrub /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0
>> Partition 0 of the disk has an incorrect offset
>> Unable to gather device information for /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0
>>
>> I'm still nervous about running this on my (apparently) only bootable disk... (c4t2d0s0)
> prtvtoc shows cylinders and accessible cylinders differ by one:
>
> # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0
> * /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0 partition map
> *
> * Dimensions:
> *     512 bytes/sector
> *      56 sectors/track
> *     224 tracks/cylinder
> *   12544 sectors/cylinder
> *   18689 cylinders
> *   18687 accessible cylinders
> *
> * Flags:
> *   1: unmountable
> *  10: read-only
> *
> * Unallocated space:
> *       First     Sector    Last
> *       Sector     Count    Sector
> *           0     12544     12543
> *
> *                          First     Sector    Last
> * Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>        0      2    00      12544 234384640 234397183
>        2      5    01          0 234422272 234422271
>        8      1    01          0     12544     12543
>
> # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4t2d0s0
> * /dev/rdsk/c4t2d0s0 partition map
> *
> * Dimensions:
> *     512 bytes/sector
> *      56 sectors/track
> *     224 tracks/cylinder
> *   12544 sectors/cylinder
> *   18688 cylinders
> *   18686 accessible cylinders
> *
> * Flags:
> *   1: unmountable
> *  10: read-only
> *
> * Unallocated space:
> *       First     Sector    Last
> *       Sector     Count    Sector
> *           0     12544     12543
> *
> *                          First     Sector    Last
> * Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>        0      2    00      12544 234384640 234397183
>        2      5    01          0 234422272 234422271
>        8      1    01          0     12544     12543
>
> # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0 > /tmp/prtvtoc-c4t3d0s0
>
> # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4t2d0s0 > /tmp/prtvtoc-c4t2d0s0
>
> # diff /tmp/prtvtoc-c4t2d0s0 /tmp/prtvtoc-c4t3d0s0
> 1c1
> < * /dev/rdsk/c4t2d0s0 partition map
> ---
>> * /dev/rdsk/c4t3d0s0 partition map
> 8,9c8,9
> < *   18688 cylinders
> < *   18686 accessible cylinders
> ---
>> *   18689 cylinders
>> *   18687 accessible cylinders

Maybe recreating the mirror would work. Not sure what happened but I could possibly follow this:

http://malsserver.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/mirroring-resolved-correct-way.html

Especially note comments by Malachi de Ælfweald 11/25/2008 8:49 PM
>> before doing the fmthard, you have to do fdisk on the new drive

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