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Operating Systems Solaris Installing Solaris 8 bootblock without Solaris Install CD Post 302488145 by johnny994 on Saturday 15th of January 2011 11:11:44 AM

01-15-2011

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Ok, let's get things straight. I -am- hired to do the job, though my employer didn't know it was out of my knowledge area (I'm particularly working with Linux), but I figured it's still a Unix OS so I'd give it a shot.
The dd command I wrote was just a manifestation, not the one I actually used. I actually used G4L (at first), on a -Linux- OS (previously I had the drives I'm cloning and new ones connected to it of course). Things didn't actually work (I think the empty media was damaged), until I took new drive and G4U which did the job and brought me to something like this: "boot disk: a ..." (I seriously cannot recall the whole openboot message, though I know it was the one that was written when startup with original disks succeeded).

Yeah, as a side note (@methyl), I am not the owner of the workstation. The owner however has no knowledge on how to use it, beside the usage of the particular medical application running on the machine. As far as I found out the machine was sold without any documentation just so the seller would remain the only one eligible for the service of the machine. I hope this makes it clear for you. There's no need of informing me about the importance of documentation/OS media.

@frank: Could you provide me with a download link? As far as I know Solaris 8 is not publicly available. And I'll try to get the messages if I get another glance at the machine, since the deadline is over and I gave up. Serial console? Any links to that device/software?

Kind regards,
Johnny

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systemd-machine-id-commit.service

SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)			 systemd-machine-id-commit.service		      SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine ID to disk

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service is an early boot service responsible for committing transient /etc/machine-id files to a writable disk
       file system. See machine-id(5) for more information about machine IDs.

       This service is started after local-fs.target in case /etc/machine-id is a mount point of its own (usually from a memory file system such
       as "tmpfs") and /etc is writable. The service will invoke systemd-machine-id-setup --commit, which writes the current transient machine ID
       to disk and unmount the /etc/machine-id file in a race-free manner to ensure that file is always valid and accessible for other processes.
       See systemd-machine-id-setup(1) for details.

       The main use case of this service are systems where /etc/machine-id is read-only and initially not initialized. In this case, the system
       manager will generate a transient machine ID file on a memory file system, and mount it over /etc/machine-id, during the early boot phase.
       This service is then invoked in a later boot phase, as soon as /etc has been remounted writable and the ID may thus be committed to disk to
       make it permanent.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd-machine-id-setup(1), machine-id(5), systemd-firstboot(1)

systemd 237												      SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)