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boot block Sun Blade
Name: Rick Date: January 15, 2003 at 07:54:56 Pacific OS: Solaris 8 CPU/Ram: Sun Blade 100
Comment:
Having a problem with the booting of a Sun Blade after doing a complete restore from tape. I entered this command that worked with the sparc and ultra series but for the Blade it doesn't seem to work.
Name: RobinJ Date: January 17, 2003 at 02:10:57 Pacific
Reply:
I would expect to see the response to a uname -m, not uname -i On our Ultra 5's Netra x1's and Fire's its sun4u, Try substituting this value eg:- /usr/sbin/installboot \ /usr/platform/sun4u/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk \ /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
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Response Number 2
Name: Rick Date: January 17, 2003 at 12:00:22 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the input. I did a man page on the uname and it recommends that the -m not be done. Since it's a new system I figure I can follow your advice on Monday. Thanks for the advice as I have little experience with the Blade, only with the SPARC and ULTRA series. Again, thanks Robin.
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