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Operating Systems Solaris Just starting my Solaris 10 upgrade - Need Help Post 302071033 by dsbeerf on Tuesday 11th of April 2006 02:32:10 PM

04-11-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PapaPark

Here's the message I'm getting before it fails the cd boot and starts the normal boot process....

Any help would be greatly appreciated

~~~~~
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom - text
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2, 0:f
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot cdrom - text
can't open boot device
Boot device: disk a: File and args:
~~~~

Then it starts the normal boot up

If you haven't figured this out, the error:

Bad magic number in disk label

Tells you that the disk (CDROM) is bad. It cannot identift the 'file' on the disk as a bootable image.

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installboot

installboot(1M)                                                                                                                    installboot(1M)

NAME

       installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

       installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

       The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

       The  ufs  boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
       found using the -i option of uname(1).

       The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the  architecture.  users should use installgrub(1M) instead.

       bootblk         The name of the bootblock code.

       raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is  read-
                       able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

       Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block

       To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

              example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk 
                   /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

       /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

           directory where ufs boot objects reside.

       /platform/platform-name/ufsboot

           second level program to boot from a disk or CD

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

                                                                    11 Apr 2005                                                    installboot(1M)