[SunRescue] Recover Solaris

[Ken Hansen]

Remove the boot device - be it net, disk, cd-rom, whatever and power the
machine back up.

Once powered up, it should fail and return to the OpenBoot PROM, allowing
you to do something like resent the NVRAM defaults, then add hardware one at
a time the the machine is back.

I suspect the drive is corrupt, and that is cuasing your machine to "sort
of" boot, then reset. I suspect auto-boot is working against you.

Have you tried to press stop-a combination while the machine is booting, to
interrupt the cycle?

HTH,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "yadukrishna valluru" <yadukrishnav at yahoo.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:07 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] Recover Solaris


> Hi,
>  got the following problem .
>
> I have Solaris2.7 installed on Ultra10 Box. and the
> applications running are Vignette5.5 , Iplanet
> Webserver and Oracle DB server are running on it.
>
>      yesterday i have to update the patch for
> Vignette.
> I downloaded the one to /opt/vignette/patch directory
> , Gunziped it and was Untaring it , but i could not
> Untar it properly with with the error check sum error.
>
>  Now i want to remove all the untared files and
> redownload it.In the process i was removing the files
> in the same directory(patch) ...
>
>
>    And the suddenly system got hanged with White
> screen. and no response. After Half an hour i want to
> reboot the machine but could not..It goes up to sparc
> boot prom checks for the disk a and again reboots.
> This is on and on.
>    It is a development machine and there is no data.
> Is there any way to get my old system. Please explain
> me the procedure in detail.
>
> Expecting great help..
>
> Thanks in advance..
> yadukrishna
>
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