In a previous
discussion
about the GRUB boot archive and how it can be regenerated, I mentioned
that it will not be as easy as it can be when the root file system use
the md driver. I will now show two different methods to do the same
thing when the root file system is build upon a SVM mirror (RAID-1):
Note: Although this test case was done using Solaris 10 8/07 under a virtual machine build upon VirtualBox on latest Solaris Express Community Edition, the instructions must be valid for Solaris 10 1/06 and later.
As we can see, the system use only a root file system, and a swap device. Both are encapsulated with SVM.
# df -k -F ufs
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 6147798 3455578 2630743 57% /
# swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/md/dsk/d1 85,1 8 4194288 4194288
# metastat -c d0 d1
d0 m 6.0GB d10 d20
d10 s 6.0GB c0d0s0
d20 s 6.0GB c1d1s0
d1 m 2.0GB d11 d21
d11 s 2.0GB c0d0s1
d21 s 2.0GB c1d1s1
The idea is to boot on the GRUB Failsafe mode, select the first side of
the mirror, and modify the system and vfstab configuration files to
use the correct device path. For the system file, this means to
actually remove the rootdev:/pseudo/md@0:0,0,bl entry, not just
comment it. For the vfstab file, this means replacing the root file
system metadevice path /dev/md/[r]dsk/d0 by the first underlying
device path, i.e. /dev/[r]dsk/c0d0s0. Last, regenerate the boot
archive on the alternate root path.
[...]
Booting to milestone "milestone/single-user:default".
Configuring devices.
Searching for installed OS instances...
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 is under md control, skipping.
/dev/dsk/c1d1s0 is under md control, skipping.
No installed OS instance found.
Starting shell.
# fsck /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /a
# cp /a/etc/system /a/etc/system.bckp
# cp /a/etc/vfstab /a/etc/vfstab.bckp
# TERM=vt100 vi /a/etc/system
# TERM=vt100 vi /a/etc/vfstab
# bootadm update-archive -R /a
# umount /a
# fsck /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
# reboot
Then, boot into milestone/multi-user:default level and detach the
second half of the mirror, since the first half correspond to the valid
and updated underlying device. Next, restore the original configuration
files which refers to the encapsulated metadevices, and reboot.
# df -k -F ufs
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 6147798 3458810 2627511 57% /
# swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/md/dsk/d1 85,1 8 4194288 4194288
# metastat -c d0
d0 m 6.0GB d10 d20
d10 s 6.0GB c0d0s0
d20 s 6.0GB c1d1s0
# metadetach d0 d20
d0: submirror d20 is detached
# metastat -c d0
d0 m 6.0GB d10
d10 s 6.0GB c0d0s0
# cp /etc/system.orig /etc/system
# cp /etc/vfstab.orig /etc/vfstab
# shutdown -y -i 6 -g 0
After the reboot, just reattach the second half of the mirror, and wait for complete synchronization to be fully redundant again.
# df -k -F ufs
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 6147798 3458714 2627607 57% /
# swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/md/dsk/d1 85,1 8 4194288 4194288
# metattach d0 d20
d0: submirror d20 is attached
# metastat -c d0
d0 m 6.0GB d10 d20 (resync-29%)
d10 s 6.0GB c0d0s0
d20 s 6.0GB c1d1s0
The idea is exactly the same as for unmirroring the root file system
only, but adapting the vfstab file to change the swap entry, too. (So,
I didn't reproduce the code listing here.)
Then, boot into milestone/single-user:default level modifying the
corresponding GRUB entry as follow:
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -s. Completely delete all the
metadevices and metadb configurations to clear SVM settings. Last,
continue into milestone/multi-user:default level to boot unmirrored.
# metaclear -f -r d0 d1
# metadb -f -d c1d0s4 c1d0s4
# ^D
Now, the system must be fully encapsulate by SVM again. Please refer to online Sun Documentation, or some past entries on this subject, depending on the system's architecture: SPARC systems, or x86 platforms.