Solaris

hi, I' ve found an error while starting up solaris 10, so I booted in safe mode from grub and modified the menu.lst with vi, to obtain a verbose output of the error. It says

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failed to readsuperblock 
diskread reading beyound end of ramdisk
start = 0x800 size=0x800 
...
...
panic: cannot mount boot archive

have you any ideas for solving the problem?

maybe you should post the initial fault and the modifications you've done to the grub config...

i had a problem at boot, it reboot by itself without any error message , so the only thing i did was to add "-v" at the end of the boot line, so now I've this

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kernel /platform/i87pc/multiboot  kernel/unix -v

I only add the "-v" flag , nothing else

you are not providing sufficient log/output. can you boot to single user mode first? capture and show whats the console message before it goes to single user/maintenance mode for login. And also for information, what model is this server?

maybe I miss something , I hope this time all needed information are included. in the attachments there are the screen message I have in normal boot and safe boot . I add in a/boot/grub/menu.lst a this line

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module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

and now the message
doesn't appear anymore. Now I see the screen I've attached with the name of normalBOOT.jpg, when I boot in normal mode, after this screen the pc reboot suddenly.
you mean physical server or a virtual one? i don't understand. if first, I 'm running solaris on X86 pc Pentium 4.

Not able to see the images in IE.
And its a joke! Thought it was an x86 physical server at first. Did not thought that it was a Pentium PC

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Boss, saw it in firefox.. Just an advise, you are using a very old release of Solaris (update w/o patches with LOTS of bugs in fact). Why dont you download the latest to install? It will eliminate majority of your problems.

Whatever it is, when your system is in single user mode, do this:-

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cd /
mount /dev/dsk/cxtxdxs0 /mnt
bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
cd /
umount /mnt
init 6

Hope this helps

well, i'm trying to learn something about of unix, after I've used linux for some months, so if I would made a fresh install of solaris I won't learn anything about the solaris maintainence practises. That's all .
anyway I think with single-user you mean the screen I called safe boot mode, I go there and type what you suggested but i don't have /dev/dsk/cxtxdxs0 voice , i see only cxdxp0 and cxdxsx ones. the cxdxsx goes from c0d1s0 to c0d1s15, I tried anyway to type bootadm update-archive -R /mnt but I have this message back

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/mnt/: not a GRUB boot OS instance

don't know what does it mean.