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Data and Technology

Posted on December 21st, 2005

Written by cliff

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boot, cdrom, controller, device, device links, device pointer, device tree, disk, disk slice, disks, HowTo, mirroring, mount, partition, slot, solaris, storage, sun

Rebuilding the Solaris Device Tree

If you ever shift around any bootable drives within a Sun Solaris box, you may find that either the device names (cxtxd0sx) do not follow the disk position within the server, or, the system just fails to boot because it can’t mount the other disk slices.
Let’s assume you are booting off of target 8 (c1t8d0s0), [...]
Data and Technology

Posted on August 26th, 2005

Written by cliff

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Alan Baker, boot, bootable, dos, fdisk, ngctdos, ngserver, partition, storage, support, symantec ghost, system administration, technology, windows, windows domain

Recovering From a Stuck Symantec Ghost Virtual Boot Partition

It seems that when you manage a bunch of machines with Symantec Ghost, you always end up with one or two that, for whatever reason, get stuck in the Ghost Virtual Boot Partition, and can’t boot back into windows. This can be really frustrating because you usually know what went wrong, and need to get [...]