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IS-IT--Management
Feb 18, 2003
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I am in the process of building of solaris 9 server.
Playing around a bit I edited the /etc/system file
and commented out forceload lines. Rebooted to a panic message saying it couldn't mount / and that no dump device was configured. Well, with a laugh I booted from cd in single user mode, mounted the real root slice and uncommented out the forceload line's. I still get a panic message. Any idea's?

The system, when booting from cd noe is very slow (V240)

I am at a point where a re-install is no big deal but when I boot from cd I get random and strange symbols. I set-defaults
in nvram to ne avail. Any ideas?

I am using Teraterm from windows and have never seen this before.

Thanks
 
Forceload normally loads 3rd party drivers that are not included with Solaris...

Can you post the panic message...
 
Panic message as follows:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk File and args:
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-07 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
/
SC Alert: SC Request to send Break to host.

panic[cpu1]/thread=140a000: mod_rele_dev_by_major: Unheld driver: major number <
32>

0000000001409100 genunix:mod_rele_dev_by_major+58 (20, 2000000000, 2000000007, 3
0000058790, 4, 2)
%l0-3: 00000000014c10e0 0000000000000020 0000030000152c18 0000030000058648
%l4-7: 0000000000010000 0000000000000000 000003000005876c 0000030000058790
00000000014091b0 md:initit+258 (0, 14ab000, 20, 0, 14a9fb4, 14a9c00)
%l0-3: ffffffffffffffef 0000000000000002 0000000000000010 0000000000000032
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 00000000014ab348 00000000014bfe58 000003000005bb28
0000000001409260 md:mddb_setenter+98 (0, 2, 14093cc, 0, 200, 0)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 000000000000000f 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 00000000014bfe58 00000000014bfe50 ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
0000000001409310 md:mddb_getnextrec+1c (0, 6, 0, 0, 30000285c00, 9)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 00000300002a1200 000003000000e788 0000000000001fff
%l4-7: 000000007c000000 0000000000000000 000000000140d558 000000000140b800
00000000014093d0 md:md_load_namespace+8c (0, 0, 10, 0, 14a4276, 300004c2000)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000010 00000000014bfe28
%l4-7: 0000000000000006 000003000000e958 0000000000000118 0000000000000000
0000000001409480 md:md_snarf_db_set+c0 (0, 0, 20, 1, 0, 0)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 00000000014bfe28 0000000000000000 00000000014bfcb0
%l4-7: 00000300004b0bb0 00000300004b0bd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000001409540 md:mdopen+d4 (3, 0, 14bfe28, 8000, 14a4290, 3b9aca00)
%l0-3: 0000000000000055 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000001495000
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 00000000014bfd38 0000000000000000 00000000014bfe30
0000000001409610 specfs:spec_open+10c (1409808, 55, 5500000000, 300004c3e90, 300
004c3ea8, 300004c3d98)
%l0-3: 00000300004c3d90 00000300004c3d90 0000000000000006 00000300004c3e90
%l4-7: 0000000000000003 00000300004f5f28 00000300004c3eb0 00000000ffffffff
0000000001409740 ufs:ufs_mountroot+30c (146beb8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8)
%l0-3: 0000000001183068 000000000148eba8 0000005500000000 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 00000000000000b0 00000000014121e0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000001409810 swapgeneric:rootconf+268 (0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0)
%l0-3: 00000000011998f0 00000000014387e0 0000000000000000 000000000144bd60
%l4-7: 000000000144b800 00000000014a4800 000003000001b100 00000300002ad000
00000000014098c0 unix:stubs_common_code+70 (300002ad000, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0)
%l0-3: 00000300002ad000 0000000000000000 00000300002ad000 ffffffffffffffff
%l4-7: 00000000000000b0 0000000001410d88 0000000000000000 000000000144ec80
0000000001409970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+54 (0, 0, 0, 200, 1457ee0, 0)
%l0-3: 000000000144b800 0000000001444400 0000000000002000 00000000014954a8
%l4-7: 000000000149b000 0000000001411e28 000000000144c000 000000000144f400
0000000001409a20 genunix:main+90 (1409ba0, f0059684, 1409ec0, 398648, 2000, 438)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 000000000140a000 0000000001412f98 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 0000000078002000 000000000039a000 00000000014a38b0 00000000010664f8

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...

Thanks
 
I am also having proglems booting from cd or
rather I can't boot from cd.

I either get Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args:
Memory Address not Aligned

or it just hangs there.

Thanks for help
 
OK,

The good news is that I CAN boot to single user mode
from cd and mount / on the hard drive. I had added a shared memory entry that we use for Sybase. I commented out that entry as it was last thing I did before I ran into problems.

I am still seeing the same problem though.
Not sure what could have caused this.

Sorry so many questions but I have to get this system up and operational. Even if I need to re-install, which I am having issues booting to cd 1
 
Looks like you have a hard drive failure or corrupted file system... Since you can boot to single user mode off the CD, run a fsck on you hard drive...

Command should look something like:

fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

I would run this command on all partitions that are part of the OS.

 
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