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x86 Solaris 8 does not boot.
Post 302440270 by gogusrl on Monday 26th of July 2010 03:50:27 PM
07-26-2010
x86 Solaris 8 does not boot.
Hello,
First of all I must say that I have 0 solaris experience and only some average linux knowledge.
One of my friends came to ask for my help today with a Solaris 8 x86 station that would not boot.
The system is a pentium 4 1.6 ghz, 1gb ram, 40 gb hdd.
When I turn it on, I get
and a prompt > that doesn`t react to any command I use. It will not return an error or execute anything, just go to a new line / prompt.
I have tried to boot with a solaris 10 dvd, picked Single User Shell and I get
Yes and I get
It seems that solaris 8 doesn`t use grub but I was to afraid to dig any further since this system hosts a very expensive software with very expensive official support 
Thanks for your time.
First of all I must say that I have 0 solaris experience and only some average linux knowledge.
One of my friends came to ask for my help today with a Solaris 8 x86 station that would not boot.
The system is a pentium 4 1.6 ghz, 1gb ram, 40 gb hdd.
When I turn it on, I get
Quote:
SunOS secondary boot version 3.00
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting System
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting System
I have tried to boot with a solaris 10 dvd, picked Single User Shell and I get
Quote:
An out of sync boot archive was detected on /dev/dsk/c1d0s0.
The boot archive is a cache of files used during boot and should be kept in sync to ensure proper system operation.
The boot archive is a cache of files used during boot and should be kept in sync to ensure proper system operation.
Quote:
updating boot archive on dev/dsk/c1d0s0.
bootadm: missing /boot/grub on root: /a/
Solaris 8. 2/02 s28x_u7wos_08a INTEL was found on dev/dsk/c1d0s0.
bootadm: missing /boot/grub on root: /a/
Solaris 8. 2/02 s28x_u7wos_08a INTEL was found on dev/dsk/c1d0s0.
Thanks for your time.
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