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# 1  
Old 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
Quote:
SunOS secondary boot version 3.00
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting System
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
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.
Yes and I get
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.
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 Smilie

Thanks for your time.
# 2  
Old 07-26-2010
You are correct. Solaris 8 X86 did not use GRUB. Solaris 10 1/06 added the GRUB bootloader for X86 systems.

If you have a Solaris 8 Software CD1 (not the installation disk), boot off this CD to repair the installation.
# 3  
Old 07-27-2010
Hey, thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I do not have any Solaris 8 cds and did not found anything on the net.

Anyone has a location where I can download it (ofcourse only if it`s legal / free) ?

edit : found them. Any insight on how I procede now ?

edit again : they were the sparc version Smilie still looking for the x86 version.

---------- Post updated at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:48 AM ----------

Got my hands on a Solaris 8 x86 instal cd, booted of it and after a few F2 I get to this :
Quote:
Volume management starting.
/etc/rc2.d/S99uag:startup (S99uag) AMMANN - Application
Konfiguriere TCP stack:
TCP Stack Done !
scheduler is running
no system default destination
zeitsynchrnisation ausgeschaltet
/etc/rc.2/S99uagSmilieorthold started.
Deaktivieren des Volmgt
as221 /usr/sbin/vold{306}: problem unmounting /vol; Resource temporarily unavailable

ufs_log : WARNING : Error writing ufs log state
ufs log for /mnt changed state to error
please unmount (1M) /mnt and run fsck(1M)
snmpXdmid: Registration with DMI failed. err = 831
and it asks me for login credentials. My friend swears he gave me the right password but i`m wondering if root is the user I should try to login under since it`s not working.

btw : AMMANN is the only piece of software installed on the system from what I know.

I`m still looking for someone kind enough to point me in the right direction for the Solaris 8 x86 Software cds.
Last edited by gogusrl; 07-27-2010 at 07:00 AM..
# 4  
Old 07-27-2010
Try and boot to single-user (boot s). Then fsck all the filesystems you can find except root.
And yes, log in as root.
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