11-02-2006
Can't open boot device
I have a real emergency. I have a Sun Fire V240 UltraSparc server and am connected via the Serial Mgmnt Port with a Laptop. I have been building an Oracle database on it for the past couple months, not getting very far along with it , when suddenly, the system had a fatal crash. I've lost the shadow file, the passwd file, and cannot even boot up the system now.. I have resorted to attempting to boot from the Operating System CD labeled: 1/06 Solaris 10 Oprerating System for x64/x86 DVD. Packaged with the server were also other DVD's, one labeled: 1/06 Solaris 10 Operating System for Sparc DVD. I don't know which one is correct, but neither one will allow me to get ahold of the op sys. I cannot get passed the password prompting except for the sc mode for ALOM, then from there, to the ok prompt, then I'm back where I started-->> having to reboot. That doesn't help me at all. Very little functionality available there. Here are a few error messages when booting up:
ok boot cdrom s
Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args: s
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
ok <prompt>
Please --->>somebody help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
mkcd
mkcd(1M) System Administration Commands mkcd(1M)
NAME
mkcd - create bootable Solaris ISO image
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/mkcd -v [-l label] media-root iso
DESCRIPTION
The mkcd utility takes media-root (the root of an on-disk Solaris install media) as input and creates a bootable Solaris ISO image in the
file iso, using mkisofs(8). The file can then be burned onto a CD/DVD with utilities such as cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1). (Neither mkisofs(8)
nor cdrecord(1) are SunOS man pages.)
Caution -
The directory tree media-root must contain the file boot/grub/stage2_eltorito, which will be written to the media boot sectors. This file
will be modified with some boot information, thus it must be writable. If necessary, first save a copy prior to running this utility.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-l label
Sets label as the label/volume name of the ISO image.
-v
Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
media-root
Top-level directory of an on-disk Solaris install media.
iso
Name of the output file which will contain the resulting ISO image.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Creating an ISO Image and Burning a CD/DVD
The following commands create an ISO image from the content of s10u1 and burn the image to a CD/DVD.
# /usr/bin/mkcd s10u1 s10u1.iso
# /usr/bin/cdrw -i s10u1.iso
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
cdrw(1), attributes(5)
mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page)
SunOS 5.11 25 Jul 2008 mkcd(1M)