[Sunhelp] Solaris 2.7 and patches won't boot (fwd)

[Steve Pribyl]

Brian,

I don't understand your second option.  Can you shed a little more light
on the specifics on the fix you describe, what is wrong and how this fixes
the problem.

Thanks
Steve


On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Brian Scanlan wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 07:19:03PM -0600, Steve Pribyl wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I have a sparc 5 with a fresh load of solaris 2.7 and the latest sun
> > recommended patches.
> > 
> > It now won't boot.
> > Here is the error I get.
> > 
> > INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx
> > INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> > INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"   "
> > INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
> > ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S)
> > 
> > I have load this box twice, with the same result.
> > I can boot of the cdrom and mount root and the file is there and dir and
> > file perms are correct.
> 
> I got this problem on an Intel box - I'm reliably informed that it also
> happens on Sparcs too. 
> 
> If, after the kernel patch, the post-patch script did not run, you will be
> left in a situation where you cannot boot single user mode off the disk in
> question. There are two workarounds - Boot off cdrom, and edit the postpatch
> script that's with the patch to work in an environment where the root and /var
> filesystems are mounted on /a or in /tmp or whatever, OR simply ln /dev/msglog
> to /dev/console, but that;s a quick fix, not a qorkaround.
> 
> Brian.
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