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Boot problem - Netra
Name: Derek Lynch Date: October 2, 2002 at 08:05:47 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: 256mb
Comment:
Hi
My Netra won't boot into Solaris, it states ...
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-07 64-bit Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. configuring IPv4 interfaces: dmfe0. Hostname: netraid1-1 NOTICE: dmfe0: PHY 1 link down NOTICE: dmfe1: PHY 1 link down The system is coming down. Please wait. System services are now being stopped. Print services already stopped. The system is down. INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"s5" INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"of" syncing file systems... done lom> LOM event: +6h26m44s host power off lom>
I'm unable to login to Solaris, any help would be appreciated
Name: GK Date: October 2, 2002 at 09:44:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Derek Have you tried booting it from a cdrom first. Secondly is your ethernet interface connected to a hub? if you can boot from a cdrom and it is connected to a hub then try on ok prommt do boot -s and then do fsck / after it boots up. Gagan
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Response Number 2
Name: Aakash Date: October 2, 2002 at 23:07:22 Pacific
Reply:
Check your files, they are either corrupt or missing: /var/adm/utmpx /var/adm/utmp /var/adm/wtmpx /var/adm/wtmp
Check them, if so, boot from CD-ROM (OS) and copy the similar files from it to your '/var' filesystem/directory.
NOTE: If they exists, copy them to some location or rename them for backup purposes..., then retrieve the correct ones...
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Response Number 3
Name: Derek Lynch Date: October 3, 2002 at 00:25:27 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
Many thanks for the Help, unfortunatly the Netra doesn't have a CDDROM unit ( a fatal mistake when we purchased them )
The O/S comes pre-installed
regards
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Response Number 4
Name: Mark M Date: October 3, 2002 at 03:30:30 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried stop+A and then doing fsck ? also sync at an ok prompt may help.
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Response Number 5
Name: Derek Lynch Date: October 3, 2002 at 07:00:40 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
Hippee, some progress ( many thanks )
I've managed to get in and do an fsck, but it still failed to boot up correctly.
Managed to get in again and try sys-unconfig, but it gave the following :-
Do you want to continue (y/n) ? y sys-unconfig: Failure: Cannot open logfile
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