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[reinstalled]

I am in the process of building of solaris 9 server.
Playing around a bit I edited the /etc/system file
and commented out forceload lines. Rebooted to a panic message saying it couldn't mount / and that no dump device was configured. Well, with a laugh I booted from cd in single user mode, mounted the real root slice and uncommented out the forceload line's. I still get a panic message. Any idea's?

The system, when booting from cd noe is very slow (V240)

I am at a point where a re-install is no big deal but when I boot from cd I get random and strange symbols. I set-defaults
in nvram to ne avail. Any ideas?

I am using Teraterm from windows and have never seen this before.

Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

Exactly what 'random and strange' symbols are you getting?

 

[bfitzmai]

Forceload normally loads 3rd party drivers that are not included with Solaris...

Can you post the panic message...

 

[reinstalled]

Panic message as follows:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk File and args:
SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_117171-07 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
/
SC Alert: SC Request to send Break to host.

panic[cpu1]/thread=140a000: mod_rele_dev_by_major: Unheld driver: major number <
32>

0000000001409100 genunix:mod_rele_dev_by_major+58 (20, 2000000000, 2000000007, 3
0000058790, 4, 2)
%l0-3: 00000000014c10e0 0000000000000020 0000030000152c18 0000030000058648
%l4-7: 0000000000010000 0000000000000000 000003000005876c 0000030000058790
00000000014091b0 md:initit+258 (0, 14ab000, 20, 0, 14a9fb4, 14a9c00)
%l0-3: ffffffffffffffef 0000000000000002 0000000000000010 0000000000000032
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 00000000014ab348 00000000014bfe58 000003000005bb28
0000000001409260 md:mddb_setenter+98 (0, 2, 14093cc, 0, 200, 0)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 000000000000000f 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 00000000014bfe58 00000000014bfe50 ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
0000000001409310 md:mddb_getnextrec+1c (0, 6, 0, 0, 30000285c00, 9)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 00000300002a1200 000003000000e788 0000000000001fff
%l4-7: 000000007c000000 0000000000000000 000000000140d558 000000000140b800
00000000014093d0 md:md_load_namespace+8c (0, 0, 10, 0, 14a4276, 300004c2000)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000010 00000000014bfe28
%l4-7: 0000000000000006 000003000000e958 0000000000000118 0000000000000000
0000000001409480 md:md_snarf_db_set+c0 (0, 0, 20, 1, 0, 0)
%l0-3: 0000000000000000 00000000014bfe28 0000000000000000 00000000014bfcb0
%l4-7: 00000300004b0bb0 00000300004b0bd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000001409540 md:mdopen+d4 (3, 0, 14bfe28, 8000, 14a4290, 3b9aca00)
%l0-3: 0000000000000055 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000001495000
%l4-7: 0000000000000000 00000000014bfd38 0000000000000000 00000000014bfe30
0000000001409610 specfs:spec_open+10c (1409808, 55, 5500000000, 300004c3e90, 300
004c3ea8, 300004c3d98)
%l0-3: 00000300004c3d90 00000300004c3d90 0000000000000006 00000300004c3e90
%l4-7: 0000000000000003 00000300004f5f28 00000300004c3eb0 00000000ffffffff
0000000001409740 ufs:ufs_mountroot+30c (146beb8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8)
%l0-3: 0000000001183068 000000000148eba8 0000005500000000 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 00000000000000b0 00000000014121e0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000001409810 swapgeneric:rootconf+268 (0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0)
%l0-3: 00000000011998f0 00000000014387e0 0000000000000000 000000000144bd60
%l4-7: 000000000144b800 00000000014a4800 000003000001b100 00000300002ad000
00000000014098c0 unix:stubs_common_code+70 (300002ad000, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0)
%l0-3: 00000300002ad000 0000000000000000 00000300002ad000 ffffffffffffffff
%l4-7: 00000000000000b0 0000000001410d88 0000000000000000 000000000144ec80
0000000001409970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+54 (0, 0, 0, 200, 1457ee0, 0)
%l0-3: 000000000144b800 0000000001444400 0000000000002000 00000000014954a8
%l4-7: 000000000149b000 0000000001411e28 000000000144c000 000000000144f400
0000000001409a20 genunix:main+90 (1409ba0, f0059684, 1409ec0, 398648, 2000, 438)
%l0-3: 0000000000000001 000000000140a000 0000000001412f98 0000000000000000
%l4-7: 0000000078002000 000000000039a000 00000000014a38b0 00000000010664f8

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...

Thanks

 

[reinstalled]

I am also having proglems booting from cd or
rather I can't boot from cd.

I either get Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args:
Memory Address not Aligned

or it just hangs there.

Thanks for help

 

[reinstalled]

OK,

The good news is that I CAN boot to single user mode
from cd and mount / on the hard drive. I had added a shared memory entry that we use for Sybase. I commented out that entry as it was last thing I did before I ran into problems.

I am still seeing the same problem though.
Not sure what could have caused this.

Sorry so many questions but I have to get this system up and operational. Even if I need to re-install, which I am having issues booting to cd 1

 

[bfitzmai]

Looks like you have a hard drive failure or corrupted file system... Since you can boot to single user mode off the CD, run a fsck on you hard drive...

Command should look something like:

fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

I would run this command on all partitions that are part of the OS.