I have an ULTRA Sparc which has Solaris 2.6 installed, and has been running quite happily. However, I have rebooted the machine and all I now get is: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label Can't open disk label package Boot device: net File and args: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet I can't even get to a prompt. Is the disk volume label corrupt? How do I recover from this without getting to a prompt? Rob.

hit STOP-A and boot from CD STOP-A OK> boot cdrom -s # fsck Don't know if this will fix it or not but it's a start. Did anything change in the server (hardware?) I once saw this problem when the disk wasn't seated properly

that should read # fsck /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (or whatever your boot disk is) This board doesnt like the use of greater than and less than signs

Thanks for the reply. STOP A worked in getting me to the boot prompt. I them booted from CD, using your suggested course of action.

I'm having a similar problem, but with a CD that was generated with a CD-Recorder. I'm trying to boot with the newly created CD, but get the message "Bad Magic Number...".Obviously, the above solution will not work on a non writable CD. Does anyone have a suggestion?

I had a problem alike: I have a Ultra 10 with a recently changed CDROM drive (the Goldstar it came with went dead). The new one is an ASUS 50x (atapi). The change was ok and I could install Solaris 2.6 in a SCSI disk. The U10 already had a second HD (Maxtor 30 GB, only 8 used in Solaris 2.6), so I tried to change this one for a Fujitsu (8 GB). The problem is that after I changed the disks I couldn't boot from the CDROM again. The message is: Bad magic number in disk label Can't open disk label package Any hint? Ivan.

I'm having a similiar problem running Solaris 2.6 on a Sparc 10. I'm trying to add a second disk, but when I install the disk and try to boot I get the Bad Magic Number in Disk Label error. It will not even let me boot the system with this disk in. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jay