[SUMMARY] Boot load failed : The file just loaded does not appear to be executable

Thank from the help from 
Pierre Zimmermann [Pierre.Zimmermann@tecnomen.fi]
Ramini Gabriel [gabriel.ramini@fastweb.it]
mike.salehi@kodak.com
Gaziz Nugmanov [sunman@lists.gaziz.ca]
Jeff Woolsey [woolsey@jlw.com]
Dan Astoorian [djast@cs.toronto.edu]
bergman@merctech.com
John Leadeham [JLeadeham@interx.com]
Homan, Charles (NE) [Charles.Homan@GDC4S.Com] (he has been dope-slapped)
Dave Mitchell [davem@fdgroup.com]

The problem was that we had moved all the files into the last directory
of the system, in this case xfn, and not the bootblk being damaged.

To restore the files:
boot cdrom -sw
mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
cd /a/xfn
ls -lcrt (find files that have the time of the move error)
mv * .. (at the time xfn had no files in it, in our case)
ls -l (check if bin -> ./usr/bin and lib -> ./usr/lib)
init 6

As it was explained to us, to mv command "mv *.html *" translates to
"mv *.html TT_DB bin cdrom dev devices etc export floppy home kernel lib
lost+found mnt net opt platform proc sbin tmp usr var vol xfn" 
which means move everything (*.html and TT_BD and bin and cdrom and dev
and ... ) to xfn (the last directory).





_________________________________________________
Kamalan Govender
Computer & Network Services
University of the Witwatersrand
Tel:         +27 11 717 1671
Fax:         +27 11 339 1225
Web-site:    www.wits.ac.za
 

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Kamalan Govender
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 7:34 PM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Boot load failed : The file just loaded does not appear to be
executable

Hi all.

We have an Ultra 1 on which someone issued the following command in /
mv *.html *

This caused the machine to hang and a reboot was done. When the machine
came up, the screen shows the following error:

Boot load failed
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

From the archive and google, we understand that the bootblk is damages. 
We have tried the following remedies to solve the problem

boot cdrom -s
fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
check that there is no restoresymtable file
intallboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
umount /a
fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
init 6

This unfortunately did not bring up the machine.

We have tried booting from Install cdrom and disk 1 of 2
We have also tried boot disk:0


System is Solaris 8
Openboot 3.5


Any more suggestions before we reinstall?

_________________________________________________
Kamalan Govender
Computer & Network Services
University of the Witwatersrand
Tel:         +27 11 717 1671
Fax:         +27 11 339 1225
Web-site:    www.wits.ac.za
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers