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

2007-12-25 4:22:00

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 at acute.co.za>
To: "Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS}" <carolyn at cs.usna.edu>
Subject: RE: Can't open boot device (need to fsck)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:31:50 +0200

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

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Sent: 05 January 2005 02:14
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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 at 13,600000/ide at d/cdrom at 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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