Solaris boots
2007-12-25 8:47:00
Salutations:
While no one was watching, a Classic running Solaris 2.2 felt compelled
to reboot for reason(s) unknown. Further complicating the situation
is the fact that the box can't boot from the disk now:
(. . . stuff deleted)
starting rpc services: (blah blah - all normal)
setting default interface . . . (normal again)
syslog service starting.
(apparently not, because this is where the system hangs)
When started with boot -r, it complains:
could not read symbolic link /dev/bd.off
It can boot from the cdrom, but I _really_ don't want to reinstall the OS
and recreate all of my precious configuration files. I have complete backups
on 4mm (with ufsdump), but I don't think those will be of much use unless and
until I can make it through the boot process.
I'd sure appreciate someone sending the proper incantation, or any other
helpful suggestions, to make this thing fly again. Many thanks in advance.
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Self-help solution that worked:
Booted from cdrom; exit to shell; mount root partition and
restore symlink bd.off --> /dev/term/b; halt system; boot -r .
I was able to cheat and look at /dev/bd.off on another machine
to see what it's supposed to be linked to. Until I found one, I
had no clue where the link was supposed to point.
Cause of problem still undetermined.
Thanks, and sorry for the interruption. Now back to our original
programming . . .
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