SUMMARY: (sort of) /proc can't be mounted at boot

Given the priority of having this machine up, the fact that I cannot find
any information on the problem, and the noise the disk is making, I am
assuming that the root disk is starting to fail and is corrupted.  I am
re-building the machine, after which I will mount the failing disk and copy
over the few config files, etc. required for Oracle.

Regards,
Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Homan, Charles (NE) 
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:53 AM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: /proc can't be mounted at boot
> 
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I was in the process of moving our Oracle server this morning (Ultra
> 2/Solaris 7) and it hung on an autofs mount on shutdown.  
> (That's a side
> issue I'll work on later...)  As in similar situations I 
> eventually (after
> waiting about 10 minutes) Stop-A'ed and sync'ed the machine, 
> then proceeded
> to move it.  When I try to reboot it I get the following response:
> 
> "SunOS Release 5.7...
> [copyright notice]
> configuring network interfaces: hme0
> Hostname: oraserve
> 
> Illegal Instruction
> Illegal Instruction
> Illegal Instruction
> WARNING: /proc could not be mounted
> Illegal Instruction
> 
> WARNING - fatal error from fsck - error 132
> 
> Unable to repair the / filesystem. Run fsck manually
> (fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0) System will reboot when you 
> exit the shell"
> 
> It then gives the standard "Hit control-d to continue or 
> enter root password
> for maintenance mode" message.  When I enter the password, it 
> immediately
> reboots.  I believe that there is an "Illegal Instruction" 
> message displayed
> before it reboots, but it flashes up very quickly, so I can't 
> be sure what
> it says.
> 
> I have booted off the CD-ROM, and the /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 
> partition fsck's
> just fine.  To be on the safe side, I fsck'ed all of the 
> partitions in the
> vfstab, and they are all OK.  I can also mount them when 
> booted off of the
> CD-ROM.
> 
> Searching Google and SunSolve, the only similar issue I could 
> find was this
> one:
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2002-March/002671.html
> but it was resolved by fsck'ing the / partition.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks and IWS,
> Charles
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