Anyway the unanimous answer was to
1. boot -r from prom level
2. reboot -- -r from command line or
3. touch /reconfigure and reboot
I guess the question was Dumb enough, since the answer seemed much too simple.
I'm in the process of getting used to this Solaris 2.x and am no SYSV guy.
I wish Sun had that one big binder things as in the past where I could refer
to in one place. It made life too complicated by having small books with as
little as 20 pages.
Thanks to all of you.
Anil Katakam :-)
>> |
>> | Managers,
>> | I have Installed a Sun 4.2 GB DiskPak on our SS10 running Solaris 2.2.
>> | We have added an FSBE/Sbus card and the DiskPAK was installed on this
>> | bus since there is already an internal drive sd0 in the system.
>> | The system upon reboot identifies the disk as sd7,8,9,10 on esp1. This
>> | I found from the "prtconf" command.
>> | However when I run format none of these drives are seen except for the
>> | root drive sd0 ( i.e. c0t3d0 ). I checked the /dev/rdsk dir for the
>> | device files for these disks. Since they were not there, I assume format
>> | does not know the new disks.
>> |
>> | My question is How do I make these new device files ( probably the equivalent
>> | of MAKEDEV in old SunOS ) ???.
>> |
>> | I looked through different Docs but couldn't find any info. Even the DiskPAK
>> | installation manual does not specify about it nor does the "Adding and Maintaining
>> | Devices and Device Drivers". Of course I refered to others too.
>> |
>> | If any of you have done this on a SS10 before please correct me if I did anything
>> | wrong. Since the DiskPAK installation manual did not tell me to change any jumpers
>> | nor does the FSBE/SCSI card if it needs to be the 2nd card on board. I didn't
>> | change any jumper settings.
>> |
>> |
From: sgs@hogpa.att.com : Stephen.G.Scott@att.com
Just your basic dumb question - Did you do a boot -r to reconfigure
the system? I just installed one on a Sparc1000 and all I had to do was
plug it in, boot -r, format/partition and off it went!
Steve
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From: wtilford@lgc.com : Wayne Tilford EMail:wtilford@lgc.com
The thing to do for Solaris is to :
1. boot -r from prom level
2. reboot -- -r from command line
3. touch /reconfigure and reboot
You would use prtconf to look for devices. The drvconfig utility is responsible
for configuring the /devices directory to reflect the dev_info tree in the
kernel. This utility is run automatically bu /sbin/rcS script.
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From: George Ross <gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Did you remember to "boot -r" after you added the new hardware?
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From: epolgar@icon.hu (Endre Polgar)
Use 'boot -r' to force the system to look for
your new devices.
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