Solaris 10 will not Boot Properly

[chungste]

I am running Solaris 10 on a SPARC Sun Enterprise 420R server. It was working properly, when there was a problem with the power and it shut off without a proper shutdown.

When I boot I get the following error:
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Error: svc:/system/filesystem/root:default failed to mount /boot (see 'svcs -x' for details)
[ system/filesystem/root:default failed fatally (see 'svcs -x' for details) ]
Requesting System Maintenance Mode
Console login service(s) cannot run
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I then enter in my root password for system maintenance. When I run svcs -x, this is the output:
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svc:/system/filesystem/root:default (root file system mount)
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL
see:

http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS

see: /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-root:default.log
Impact: 44 dependent services are not running. (use -v for list.)

svc:/network/rpc/gss:default (Generic Security Service)
State: uninitialized since Sat......
Reason: Restarter svc:network/inetd:default is not running
See:

http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-5H

See: gssd(1M)
Impact: 10 dependent services are not running. (Use -v for list)

svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)
State: disabled since Sat Sep 30.....
Reason: Disabled by an administrator
See:

http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05

See: lpsched(1M)
Impact: 1 dependent service is not running. (Use -V for list)
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The output for svcs -v is too long to type out here, but it lists all the dependent services, I presume.

The content of the file /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-root:default.log is:
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[start + 1.91s Enabled. ]
[start + 2.87s Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-root") ]
ERROR: /sbin/mount -F ufs /boot failed, err=1
mount: Mount point cannot be determined
[ start + 3.12s Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
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When I try to run /sbin/mount -F ufs /boot from the command prompt itself, I get a similar error... Mount point cannot be determined.

I have also tried running the command /sbin/mount -a which seems to work in terms of mounting the entire filesystem. At that point I can browse all data, but have no idea how to get the services started and server fully booted.

I have fun fsck and it runs completely with no prompts or errors.

Here is also a copy of my /etc/vfstab:
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#device to mount #device to fsck mount point FS type fsck pass mount at boot mount options

fs - /dev/fs fs - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5 /usr ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4 /var/ ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 /export/home ufs 2 yes -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 /opt ufs 2 yes -
/devices - /devices devfs - no -
ctfs - /system/contract ctfs - no -
objfs - /system/object objfs - no -
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 /data ufs 1 yes -
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Sorry for the formatting, I had to type it out since I can't get any files directly off of the server.

The last entry in the vfstab file is the only entry I added myself. It is a secondary hard disk that I mounted to the directory /data. Everything else was automatically created at install according to the partitions that I defined.

Any ideas Solaris experts?

 

[Annihilannic]

That's kind of freaky... if there's no /boot mentioned in vfstab then why is it trying to mount one... when you say fsck was okay, did you fsck all of the filesystems or any particular one?

Annihilannic.

 

[chungste]

Annihilannic: Others have said that the problem is "freaky" as well. I ran fsck with no parameters. It went through each slice I believe, adn did not prompt for any repairs or errors.

 

[chungste]

To anyone who cares about the solution to this problem, here are the steps I performed:

1) mount -o remount,rw /
This was run because I couldn't edit any files in the / filesystem
2) echo >> /etc/vfstab
This is to add the newline to the end of the vfstab file.

Rebooted, and everything came up fine.

 

[kHz]

I am not in front of a Solaris 10 server right now, but why would it try to mount /boot on SPARC? I can see /boot on x86 which it needs, but it shouldn't need that on SPARC. Maybe I just don't recall ever seeing /boot on my SPARCs on Solaris 10.