Help cloning an SGI boot drive
Pete Turnbull
pete at dunnington.plus.com
Sun May 28 18:37:41 CDT 2017
On 28/05/2017 23:45, Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk wrote:
> I tried to clone a boot drive ( on a bigger one ), using one of the
> scripts on nekochan. The disk was initialized , labelled then
> formatted by the script, and cloned. The data is present if I mount
> it
>
> The issue starts when I change the id and try to boot from it...
What is the script? The best online resource I can suggest is Ian
Mapleson's page on cloning, at
http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/disksfiles.html#CLONE (use the tar method if
the disk is EFS rather than XFS). I do this quite often without any
issue, mostly on Indys, though I use tar slightly differently (to
exclude /proc and mounts).
If you boot with the original working disk, with the clone connected,
what does fx(1M) show for the clone?
[start fx (you need to be root), select the controller, drive,and LUN 0,
then do label, show, all]
>> From Prom, ls gives :
>
> dksc(0,1,8)/:
> sgilabel sash symmon
> esf read error, bad count
> no file
> system found for "/".
and what does the output of nvram(1M) show, especially for
SystemPartition and OSLoadPartition?
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
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