reboot with FATAL error

[sirius123]

Hi folks.

We have a E420R server with 2x450Mhz CPU, 2GB RAM and Solaris 7.
The server is spontaneously rebooting ( not panicing )with the message "System booting after fatal error FATAL".
At first we thought about a hardware problem and changed the mainboard and the CPU( one week ago ), but the error is still there.

any tips?

regards
sirius

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi. Anything in /var/adm/messages?

 

[sirius123]

SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-19 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
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System booting after fatal error FATAL

Hi Ken.
these are the first 3 lines of the messages file after a reboot.
There are no other error messages in /var/adm/messages.

 

[marrow]

I can only suggest halting the system and then restarting with the "sync" option. I have a colleague who uses this in certain circumstances and it will do a general tidy-up. It's worth a try.