[SunHELP] HELP FR SUNBLADE1K!!!

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someone point me to this release of Solaris 9 :)

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Ed Mitchell (ed<-at->the7thbeer.com)
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, shivraj yadav wrote:

> hi friends,
> 
> I am having Sun Balde 1000 on which was loaded solaris
> 9. Now it seems to have crashed & im trying to reload
> Solaris 8 without avail.
> 
> The System when booted goes to the login screen & gets
> hung .. even the keyboard fails to respond .. tho the
> entire boot process does not give any errors. When
> booted in single user mode & i try to do an fsck ..
> both normally & using alternate superblocks .. i get
> the messgae "file system modified" at the end of each
> run of 'fsck'.
> 
> when i tried to boot thru an Solaris OS 8 CD in order
> to do an "fsck" i get the error message
> "boot:cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix
> Enter file name [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: "
> This message appears after it goes to the CD device
> "boot device:/pci at 8,70000 ..... /disk at 6,0:f"
> 
> and the systems refuses to go further waiting for an
> input from me.
> 
> Now what i fail to understand is when i am booting
> from a CD why is it asking me to enter the kernel file
> name ??
> Can anyone please help me out of this ?? How do i
> repair the existing fs or else how do i go about
> installing a fresh OS on the system??
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Shivraj
> 
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