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# 1  
Old 08-24-2016
Solaris 10 boot failed init
Dear all,

I have a solaris 10 in my environment (VMware virtual machine). recently I increased the harddisk size from the VMware and reboot my server. after reboot the os is unable to boot and gives the below error message.
Code:
  
 exec(/sbin/init) file not found
 press any key to restart

I tried to search for this error but couldn't find any solution. Hope someone can help

Thanks
Last edited by vbe; 08-24-2016 at 11:29 AM..
# 2  
Old 08-24-2016
Strange. You should have the task to make the OS see and utilize the bigger disk.
if /sbin/init is missing then it looks like there is a corruption.
On the other hand, it obviously has loaded the kernel, so there is not a total corruption.
Maybe you can boot into a diagnostic mode, mount the OS disk and look into the disk's /sbin/?
# 3  
Old 08-25-2016
Wrench
Thanks for your reply. I am able to boot the os in failsafe mode and mount the disk to /a. Also I can see the init file in /a/sbin. Please let know if there is a way to fix this
# 4  
Old 08-25-2016
Well done so far.
Please provide the output of the following
Code:
df -k /a/sbin
ls -ldi /a/sbin
cat /a/etc/vfstab

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