Blade 1500 and No DIsks Found

System failed to reboot after installing some patches. Now trying to re-install Solaris 10 form CDROM I get 'No Disks Found' so perhaps controller failure?
Any tools to diagnose?

Hi,
Check your system configuration with solaris hardware compatibility list.
URL: http://soldc.sun.com/support
Thanks,
Senthilkumar
SUN - DTS

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I remember one time I was having a similar problem and don't ask my why I did it but I actually could not get it to install a system. I removed both of my ram sticks, shut the computer down for about 10 minutes including unplugging it from the wall plug, then reinstalled the ram, plugged it back in and started up from the system disk and all worked just fine. To this day I have no idea if pulling the ram helped but I have never had to do it since and for some dumb reason that solved the problem I was having, which is the same problem you are having now. Call it voodoo but it worked.
Good Luck!!
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One step backward (I'll try to keep it simple).
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and will be mounted later when a RAC db instance starts on the specific node.
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All diskgroups of db instances don't need to be mounted in Shared Mode,
because they are used by one instance only at a time
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and their db instances stopped (they are not Production instances);
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you can mount 62 globally (once a diskgroup is mounted on one node, it is given a number between 2 and 63,
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from one node and mount it to another, there are delays in the range of seconds (especially with multipath).
Also we found inside CRS log that, whenever we mounted diskgroups (on one node only), then
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Did anyone go into similar problems?
We opened a SR to Oracle asking about what options do we have here, and we are disappointed by their answer.
Regards
Oscar

Hi Klaas-Jan
- best practises require that also online redolog files are in a separate diskgroup, in case of ASM logical corruption (we are a little bit paranoid): in case DATA dg gets corrupted, you can restore Full backup plus Archived RedoLog plus Online Redolog (otherwise you will stop at the latest Archived).
So we have 3 diskgroups for each db instance: DATA, REDO, FRA.
- in case of fail-over cluster (active-passive), Oracle provide some templates of CRS scripts (in $CRS_HOME/crs/crs/public) that you edit and change at your will, also you might create additionale scripts in case of additional resources you might need (Oracle Agents, backups agent, file systems, monitoring tools, etc)
About our problem, the only solution is to move OCR and voting disks from ASM and change pfile af all ASM instance (parameter CLUSTER_DATABASE from true to false ).
Oracle aswers were a litlle bit odd:
- first they told us to use Grid Standalone (without CRS, OCR, voting at all), but we told them that we needed a Fail-over solution
- then they told us to use RAC Single Node, which actually has some better features, in csae of planned fail-over it might be able to migreate
client sessions without causing a reconnect (for SELECTs only, not in case of a running transaction), but we already have a few fail-over cluster, we cannot change them all
So we plan to move OCR and voting disks into block devices (we think that the other solution, which needs a Shared File System, will take longer).
Thanks Marko for pointing us to OCFS2 pros / cons.
We asked Oracle a confirmation that it supported, they said yes but it is discouraged (and also, doesn't work with OUI nor ASMCA).
Anyway that's the simplest approach, this is a non-Prod cluster, we'll start here and if everthing is fine, after a while we'll do it also on Prod ones.
- Note 605828.1, paragraph 5, Configuring non-raw multipath devices for Oracle Clusterware 11g (11.1.0, 11.2.0) on RHEL5/OL5
- Note 428681.1: OCR / Vote disk Maintenance Operations: (ADD/REMOVE/REPLACE/MOVE)
-"Grid Infrastructure Install on Linux", paragraph 3.1.6, Table 3-2
Oscar

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7) Restarted system using DW. Drive showed up as Unknown. Clicked on [Apple key] rebuild to do scavenge function. Left it for two hours. Little to no change. Left it to work all night.
HELP!
Will DiskWarrior use other volume on system or memory to save off or rebuild directory of bad drive? Anyone know of a utility that can help?
ANY HELP you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated. I have been put behind on research in my graduate studies and am in a terrible situation in now BOTH of my systems are inaccessible.

Hello HB3, and a warm welcome to the forums!
8) Attempted to restart with literature saying that you can restart Disk Utility as though it would delete temp files and start again. System could not be found (folder/face/folder/face showed on the screen)
You really shouldn't use a lower OSes DU to work on a higher one.
2) Used Disk Warrior to rebuild directory on disk, but I believe that there is NO space at all. Disk Warrior took a very long time...more than an hour.
What version of DW?
Anyone know of a utility that can help?
If DiskWarrior can't fix it, you might try Data Rescue II...
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
Or FileSalvage...
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?%20mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
to recover what you can, both can work when Disks are unmountable.

No Disks Found! error during install of Solaris10 R10 on OracleVM 3.0.1

Has anybody got Solaris 10 R10 working in OracleVM 3.0.1? I have Linux 6.1 and Solaris11 working fine. But get no disks found during iso install of Solaris10 R10.

Still no luck, I get through the installation until it asks about CDROM media, then I get a pop up window with the "No Disks found" eror, after that the install exists to xterm window.
Here's my vm.cfg in this instance I did not change xvd to hd as all my attempts to change this cause vm not to boot.
-thanks for any advise.
memory = 2048
disk = ['file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000914c5da5cda46bfc/ISOs/0004fb0000150000cb99f253bbdcfffc.iso,xvda:cdrom,r', 'phy:/dev/mapper/3600144f0e863c90000004e7d4b5f0002,xvdb,w!', 'file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb0000030000914c5da5cda46bfc/VirtualDisks/0004fb000012000049d780014c3c21d4.img,xvdc,w!']
vif = ['mac=00:21:f6:00:00:04,bridge=192.168.0.0']
usbdevice = 'tablet'
on_crash = 'restart'
OVM_description = ''
name = '0004fb000006000092cffa6918b35871'
builder = 'hvm'
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
boot = 'dc'
uuid = '0004fb00-0006-0000-92cf-fa6918b35871'
vfb = ['type=vnc,vncunused=1,vnclisten=127.0.0.1']
on_reboot = 'restart'
vcpus = 2
cpu_weight = 27500
OVM_os_type = 'Oracle Solaris 10'
cpu_cap = 0
OVM_high_availability = True
maxmem = 2048
OVM_simple_name = 'sol10r10'
guest_os_type = 'default'

No disks found. Solaris 10.

When i have tried install Solaris 10 on my laptop HP dv 6000 i have received this message "no disks found. chceck to make sure are cabled and powered up." what can i do? Maybe i should mount the disc? But i dont know how, i tried but i had a problem witch this, it is different than mount disk at Linux.

I was able to install Solaris 10 on a hp dv6000 as a dual boot system with Microsoft Vista. After installation I had two problems.
1) GRUB seems to have changed the Disk Signature in the MBR making Vista unbootable. See:
www.multibooters.co.uk/mbr.html.
I found a possible solution at: http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual
but haven't tried it yet.
2)Installing the Patches hung the system and made Solaris 10 unbootable. I haven't tracked down which patch was responsible.
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