Restoring dump from tape to SCSI disk

UNIX Solaris
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Hi Gurus,

I need help. Mine is an Ultra 10 machine running on solaris 7. Problem with solaris 7 is, it can no longer recognize IDE disks greater that 10GB. My workaround is ro use an external SCSI disk since it is recognizable with solaris 7. I backup my filesystems \(residing on the IDE disks\) to tape using ufsdump command. I then partitioned my SCSI hard drive to be identical with the same space as with my IDE drive. Then, one by one, I restored my filesystems to the new SCSI disks using ufsrestore ivf command, then installboot...on the new root partition. I configured the /etc/vfstab file in order to synchronize with the new SCSI disk partitions. I reboot -- -r the machine and my problem begun.
It cannot see the /usr filesystem, program terminates and it goes to the OK prompt.  :mad:

Any clues?

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Are you accidentally mounting /usr in the vfstab file?

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reboot -- -r on the newly restored system right? You performed installboot bootblk ?
rneal, OP infd that he followed exactly the same, so if /usr is mounted as a diff partition, there's nothing wrong with it