[Sunhelp] Disk Failure

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jan 24 12:06:44 CST 2000


On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 05:39:07AM -0500, Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) wrote:
> Won't boot because of a bad block on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0.
> I tried multiple fsck's and I get the same thing.
> I can get into format but can't try to fix anything because there are
> mounted partitions.
> I can umount because the system is read only.
> I do have a c0t1d0 - but no OS there to boot to.
> What are my options?  Is there a way to delete or modify the vfstab somehow
> offline?  Maybe some stop-a options.

Got a Solaris install cd around?  "boot -s cdrom" to get a single-user
shell off the cdrom, make a partition in /tmp, and mount your HD up to
that...

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