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Problem booting a Solaris 10 x86 after Jumpstart Installation

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fjgaspar

IS-IT--Management
Apr 30, 2008
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Hi,

I have a strange problem. I have a working x86 machine with Solaris 10 installed. I have made a flash image of it's hard disk, and I have store thar flar on another machine. I have another Solaris 10 with Jumpstart.

I boot other x86 machine through PXE. The Jumpstart machine gives it a valid IP, and the process of sending the flash image begins. The process finish, and the client machine reboots. And here is the strange problem:

When starting, the Grub menú appears, and shows the two options configured: first, start Solaris in normal mode, and second, failsafe.

If I choose normal start, the screen goes black and the machine restart as if you rebooted it. I can only start in failsafe mode.

Here are the config files in Jumpstart for that machine:

Profile:

install_type flash_install
archive_location nfs 10.95.8.7:/export/backup/platform/alba-ucm/ALBA-UCM-HostID_2b72c461_4x80GbMirror-Prepared_09042008.flar

partitioning explicit

filesys c0t0d0s0 1:2650 /
filesys c0t0d0s1 2651:1600 /var
filesys c0t0d0s3 4251:400 swap
filesys c0t0d0s4 4651:1000 /opt/app
filesys c0t0d0s5 5651:3143 /repositoryCC
filesys c0t0d0s6 8794:100 /tmp
filesys c0t0d0s7 8894:26

filesys c0t2d0s0 1:8093 /datos
filesys c0t2d0s1 8094:800 /DBoracle
filesys c0t2d0s7 8894:26

After Script:

touch /a/etc/notrouter
touch /a/noautoshutdown
sync
echo "Changing and syncing bootenv.rc"
# clear the boot-args property
echo "setprop boot-args ''" >> /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc
# set the bootpath property to boot from the hard disk
STRING=`df | grep '^/a '† | sed 's/).//' | sed 's/^. (//'`
STRING=`ls -l ${STRING}`
MYROOT=`echo $STRING | sed 's/.*..\/..\/devices//'`
echo "setprop bootpath ${MYROOT}" >> /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc
# disable kdmconfig from running after the first reboot
sysidconfig -b /a -r /usr/openwin/bin/kdmconfig
sync

And here is the menu.lst for Grub:

title Solaris 10
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

title Solaris Failsafe
kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe

Please, any idea about what may be hapening?
 
im kind of confused,

are you saying that normal boot does not work at all, or are you saying normal boot works but you lose the use of your console because it turns black?

David
 
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