Comments on: Boot Solaris from CD-ROM to solve problems

By: uday

uday — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:45:50 +0000

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By: kem

kem — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:18:20 +0000

yes because you are on /a mount (root). you must type pwd to see where you are ? and thereafter to go on root/ to cdrom and type umount /a so that ok

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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:06:02 +0000

Hi,

My SunFire V440 won’t boot from Solaris 9 Installation CDROM, Solaris 9 CD 1 of 2, or from Solaris 9 DVD. (boot cdrom)

In all cases, it gets through the POST, initialises all memory, tells me the boot file and device, gives me the spinner and then tells me it cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix

That’s the 64-bit file, so I’ve tried giving it the normal location of the 32-bit file:
kernel/unix

It cannot open that file either.

All I want to do is wipe its disks before sending it back to the leasing company.

It has a working Solaris OS onboard. Any ideas how I can boot from the CD/DVD or how I can wipe the disks while booted from one of them?

Thanks,
cla.

By: bunjibry

bunjibry — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:44:05 +0000

All – :?

I consoled in because its off the network. I used the aforementioned process to boot by cdrom, but have had a ‘NULL’ result. after removing the password entry from /etc/shadow and saving (wq!), I issued an init 6 to reboot. from this point it asked me for the user login (no problem, its root so i typed root) but when just hitting enter when propted for password I get Login incorrect. :?:

please help

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:09:43 +0000

I’m glad for your help :twisted: …we were living in a hell!!

8O 8O 8O :P
From spanish frikies DIELab

By: qmchenry

qmchenry — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:31:36 +0000

I’m glad it helped. This technique has saved me many a reinstall, too.

Bob, If you still can’t see your boot disk, it may be called something different than c0t0d0s0. You can run iostat -En to find the names of disks, although this won’t tell you which slice you need.

Quinn

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:54:27 +0000

run fsck

btw, thanks for original tip. it saved me from hours of reinstall.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:23:02 +0000

bob wrote:

By: bob

bob — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:22:31 +0000

i did a boot with CDROM using Solaris OS on Netra says the mount is busy or for ex:

# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt

says already mounted and when i try to do cd /mnt

similar when trying to mount /a already exists and when i try to unmount it says always busy