Though the root disk is mirrored, server is unable to boot from alternate disk (mirror disk)

Hi PPl,
It happened second time in a row. Though the root disk is mirrored, server is unable to boot from alternate disk (mirror disk)
When the disk was found faulty, still unable to boot the OS from alternate disk, it says it still probe/look for other disk
Here are the console log when I tried to boot the OS
sc> console
Enter #. to return to ALOM.
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0 (mpt0):
Disconnected command timeout for Target 1
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0 (mpt0):
Disconnected command timeout for Target 1
WARNING: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0 (mpt0):
Disconnected command timeout for Target 1
In such condition left out with only two options.
1) Remove the faulty disk physically and boot
(or)
2) Replace the faulty disk and boot it
Any way, I can disable the faulty disk in BIOS (or) booting from cd-rom and do something to avoid it?

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Booting from alternate disk

Hi there,
I have four disks on an x4170 running Solaris 10. Ive SVM mirrored c0t0d0 (boot disk) onto c0t1d0 as an active mirror, and I have also mirrored it onto c0t3d0 and detached the mirrors. I wanted c0t3d0 to act as a sort of Rollback disk which I could boot from should there be a problem with the root disk.
I have run installgrub and updated the menu.lst with:
title Rollback
root (hd3,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
and format shows:
Total disk size is 17833 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 17832 17832 100
But... I just cant boot from it. I can see it listed in the GRUB menu when I reboot and Im able to select it from the list and hit return, but the system still boots from c0t0d0. No errors are reported to the console so Im really not sure what the problem is.
Can anyone tell me what Im doing wrong? I guess my menu.lst entry must be incorrect but its baffling me. Any help would be much appreciated!

Is this system on UFS or ZFS.
Someone else posted a similar message to yours:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5419612&messageID=10884721#10884721
So I'm doing some checking and it appears that UFS and ZFS use different menu.lst files.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/getof?a=view
alan

Boot from san with local disk

I have some B200M3's with local disk. I would like to configure them to boot from san. I've setup a service profile template with a boot policy to boot from CD first and then the SAN. I have a local disk configuration policy to mirror the local disks. I've zoned the machines so that it presently only sees one path to the storage because I'm installing windows and I don't want it to see the disks funky because of multiple paths to the same disk. When I boot the machine it sees the disk. I boot to the Windows 2012R2 iso and load the drivers for the cisco mlom and then the single lun will appear. The local disk will also appear. It can't install Windows 2012R2 on the SAN disk only the local disk. It sees the local disk as disk 0 and the san disk as disk 3. I don't know how to get the machine to see the san disk as disk 0. I have the lun (which resides on an vnx5600) as lun 0. The boot policy is configured to have the san lun as lun 0. It even appears while booting the san lun appears as lun 0. The error I'm getting from the windows installer is: We couldn't install Windows in the location you chose. Please check your media drive. Here's more info about what happened: 0x80300001. Any suggestions to get this to boot from SAN.

Hi
during the boot up process, do you see the wwpn of the target showing that the VIC can talk to the storage?
Reboot the server in question, when you see the option to get into bios press F2, ssh to the primary fabrics a run the following commands
connect adapter (x/x/x). <--- (chassis #/slot #/adapter#)
connect
attach-fls
lunlist
(provide output of last command)
lunmap
(provide output of last command)

Though the root disk is mirrored, server is unable to boot from alternate disk (mirror disk)

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