[SunHELP] abort - core dumped

[Paul Mitcheson]

Dear All,

I have had problems installing Solaris 8 on an SS4 with 96MB RAM, a 4gig
hard disk (scsi id 4) which is the boot disk and a 17gig hard disk (scsi
id 3).

During the install, the machine hung, with the message "Abort - core
dumped"

This mesage was printed to the screen just before openwin was started,
and just after.

The core file points to sysidnet as being the problem.

So, I brought up a console during the install and killed sysidnet, and
the install continued properly.

However, the install will not boot properly because it core dumps on
boot, same error.

I did a boot -s and installed the sol 8 recommended patches.

It didn't help.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul
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