Reactivate RAID Volumes from Sun Oracle ILOM (T&X Server Series)

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NOTICE: Only perform this task if your system had RAID volumes prior to replacing the motherboard.

Problem & Error :

boot command is failed and Can’t open boot device.

{0} ok boot
ERROR: boot-read fail
Boot device: disk:d  File and args:
Can't open boot device
  1. Prior to powering on the server, log in to the service processor.
  2. At the ILOM prompt, disable auto-boot so that the system will not boot the OS when the system powers on.
-> set /HOST/bootmode script="setenv auto-boot? false"

3. Power on the server.

4. At the OpenBoot PROM prompt, use the show-devs command to list the device paths on the server

ok show-devs
...
/pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@e/scsi@0
...

You can also use the devalias command to locate device paths specific to your server:

ok devalias
...
scsi0                    /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@e/scsi@0
scsi                     /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@e/scsi@0
...

5. Use the select command to choose the RAID module on the motherboard

ok select scsi

Instead of using the alias name scsi, you could type the full device path name (such as /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@e/scsi@0).

6. List all connected logical RAID volumes to determine which volumes are in an inactive state

ok show-volumes

For example, the following show-volumes output shows an inactive volume:

ok show-volumes
Volume 0 Target 389  Type RAID1 (Mirroring)
  WWID 03b2999bca4dc677
  Optimal  Enabled  Inactive 
  2 Members                                         583983104 Blocks, 298 GB
  Disk 1 
    Primary  Optimal 
    Target 9      HITACHI  H103030SCSUN300G A2A8
  Disk 0 
    Secondary  Optimal 
    Target c      HITACHI  H103030SCSUN300G A2A8

7. For every RAID volume listed as inactive, type the following command to activate those volumes

ok inactive_volume activate-volume

Where inactive_volume is the name of the RAID volume that you are activating. For example:

ok 0 activate-volume
Volume 0 is now activated

8. Use the unselect-dev command to unselect the scsi device

ok unselect-dev

9. Use the probe-scsi-all command to confirm that you reactivated the volume

ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@e/scsi@0
 
FCode Version 1.00.54, MPT Version 2.00, Firmware Version 5.00.17.00
 
Target a 
  Unit 0   Removable Read Only device   TEAC    DV-W28SS-R      1.0C                    
  SATA device  PhyNum 3 
Target b 
GB  Unit 0   Disk   SEAGATE  ST914603SSUN146G 0868    286739329 Blocks, 146 
  SASDeviceName 5000c50016f75e4f  SASAddress 5000c50016f75e4d  PhyNum 1 
Target 389 Volume 0 
  Unit 0   Disk   LSI      Logical Volume   3000    583983104 Blocks, 298 GB
  VolumeDeviceName 33b2999bca4dc677  VolumeWWID 03b2999bca4dc677
 
/pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@b/pci@0/usb@0,2/hub@2/hub@3/storage@2
  Unit 0   Removable Read Only device    AMI     Virtual CDROM   1.00

10. Set the auto-boot? OpenBoot PROM variable to true so the system will boot the OS when powered-on

ok setenv auto-boot? true

11. Reboot/Reset the server

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