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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PPPOB(1) General Commands Manual PPPOB(1)
NAME
pppob - Barry Project's program to access the Blackberry modem for pppd
SYNOPSIS
pppob [-l filename][-p pin][-P password][-s][-v]
DESCRIPTION
pppob is a program suitable for use in pppd's pty option file. It talks to an available Blackberry and provides modem access on stdin and
stdout.
OPTIONS
-l filename
Causes verbose debug output from the -v switch to be written to filename instead of stderr.
-p pin PIN of device to talk with. Only needed if you have more than one Blackberry connected at once.
-P password
Simplistic method to specify device password. In a real application, this would be done using a more secure prompt.
-s Use Serial mode instead of the default IpModem mode. Older Blackberries used a serial mode based on a similar protocol to what
database access uses for retrieving data. Each packet had a size and socket number prepended to the actual modem data. Newer
Blackberries have dedicated USB endpoints that behave as read/write points, and do not bother with this size/socket format, and
therefore transfer less data across the USB bus. By default, pppob tries to use IpModem mode if proper endpoints are detected, and
otherwise falls back to Serial mode. This switch skips IpModem mode entirely and tries Serial mode immediately.
-v Dump verbose protocol data to stderr during operation.
AUTHOR
pppob is part of the Barry project.
SEE ALSO
http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry
May 29, 2008 PPPOB(1)