SUMMARY: RE: Can't open boot device (need to fsck)

From: Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} <carolyn_at_cs.usna.edu>
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 07:46:48 EST
Thank you to everyone who came to my rescue this morning.
    Simon Loewenthal
    David Harrington
    Allen Wooden
    Rene Occelli
    
Lots of good information to narrow down the problem.
Eugene Schmidt had the final answer that worked.  The
SunBlade 1500s only work with the Solaris 9 4/04 CD.

Yesterday I used all my Solaris 9 CD (2002-2004) on my
SunBlade 150s and they all worked fine.  That's where
the confusion happened.  Thank you all!  
				Carolyn Mayr
				
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From: "Eugene Schmidt" <fereug@acute.co.za>
To: "Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS}" <carolyn@cs.usna.edu>
Subject: RE: Can't open boot device (need to fsck)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:31:50 +0200


Hi

The boot device referred to here is  the CD-Rom disk.

I sugegst use CD 1 of 2 from the install set. ( I suspect you may be using
the wrong one ?)

Also ensure you are at least using SOlaris 9 4/04 or later.

Best of luck

regards

E

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[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Carolyn Mayr
{ITSD/CS}
Sent: 05 January 2005 02:14
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Can't open boot device (need to fsck)


Help!

I trashed my /etc/passwd file on my SunBlade 1500s and am trying
to boot from my Solaris 9 installation CD.  The system was frozen so
I had to do a Stop-A then

>boot cdrom -s

I'm getting this error:

   Rebooting with command: boot cdrom -s
   Boot device: /pci@13,600000/ide@d/cdrom@2,0:f  File and args: -s
   Cant' read disk label.
   Can't open disk label package

   Can't open boot device

The problem is I need to do an fsck on the / system which got
corrupted.  That's probably why it can't read the boot device.
Remember I don't have a root password so I can't type the
password to fsck the Sun.  I tried powering on/off and >boot -r
but still the same error.  Help!


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