Solaris 8 machine does not boot up

[krishania]

When trying to boot up a Solaris 8 system, I get the following message:

/dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
cannot open kernel

And it stops booting. This machine was working fine, without any problems, and with all the security patches in it, until this happened.

Does anyone know why this could happen, and how to solve the problem?

Thanks.
Krishani.

 

[Bandybe]

give more details...
did u install some soft ? some pkg ?
what is the hardware...
what's the release ? (/etc/release)
I saw somethink about this message but in solaris 2.7

Andy

 

[krishania]

Andy,
The system is a Solaris 8 OS.
The release file has the following info:

Solaris 8 s28_38shwp2 SPARC
Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Assembled 21 January 2000


The mahcine in question is one of 50 clients on the network. It has a lot of software and pkgs added it, just like all the other clients. They all have the same configuration, and this is the only one that has this problem.

It is a SPARC Ultra 5.

Can you point me to the info about the message in 2.7?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Krishani.