well before posting my problem, i really searched hi and low for some ideas, but sad to say none of them worked, including dd command.
My problem is that i have 2 harddisk, 1 in use and 1 for spare. The one im using got crashed and now im using my spare harddisk with all the engraver and rip software in it.
I would like to clone the good harddisk to this new harddisk that i got. Just in case another crash happens.
The only thing i can share is that i have a SunSparcstation 20. please refer to the attach for the system. And by the way i don't have a CD rom installed.
anyhelp would do. and please if you need other info please do let me know.
@jlliagre
i don't know what OS i have, how can i see it?
anyways i went to ok prompt by STOP+D then an error appears
"Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet" in loop
so i press STOP+A to show ok prompt
the boot-disk = disk, but if i let it boot by itself it will go straigth to OHIO software.
@incredible
how to become a superuser?
what do you mean by this on number 3: # touch /reconfigure
what do you mean by this on number 4: # init 0
Ouch, you are using SunOS 4.1.1 ... anyway, what about asking Matt Daetwyler Corp. ?
It seems you are using that box as an appliance and any advice to unlock it might breach your license.
You need to boot in single user mode and clone the disks as already suggested.
The tricky parts will be how to boot in single user mode with such an old open boot prom (possibly "boot -s" at the ok prompt if you have one), how to have your new disk recognized (cd /dev;MAKEDEV ?) and what device names to use (something like dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/sd1c bs=256k).
Anyways i manage to log-in as a single user with "boot -s", like what you've told me.
i wrote:
# dd if=/dev/sd0 of=/dev/sd1 bs=256k
message this:
dd: open: /dev/sd0: No such file or directory
next i did copy from partition to partition:
# dd if=/dev/sd0g of=/dev/sd1g bs=256k
dd: write: Error 0
8189+0 records in
8189+0 records out
i did the same thing on sd0a,sd0d,sd0e,sd0f,sd0g,sd0h, but when i boot it with the new hard drive, it says
sd0: corrupt label - bad geometry
when i tried the dd command on another target drive.
# dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/sd1a
sd1a: Error for command 'write'
sd1a: Error level: Fatal
sd1a: Block 87328, Absolute Block: 87398
sd1a: Sense key: Hardware Error
sd1a: Vendor 'SEAGATE' error code: 0x3
tried another drive:
# dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/sd1a bs=256k
sd1a: Error for command 'read'
sd1a: Error level: Retryable
sd1a: Block 0, Absolute Block: 65
sd1a: Sense key: Media Error
sd1a: Vendor 'SEAGATE' error code: 0x11
Is the destination disk partitioned exactly like the source one ? Before copying the slices content, you need to have partitions ids and size matching exactly (or the destination slices being larger than the source ones).