Thank you to everyone who came to my rescue this morning. Simon Loewenthal David Harrington Allen Wooden Rene Occelli Lots of good information to narrow down the problem. Eugene Schmidt had the final answer that worked. The SunBlade 1500s only work with the Solaris 9 4/04 CD. Yesterday I used all my Solaris 9 CD (2002-2004) on my SunBlade 150s and they all worked fine. That's where the confusion happened. Thank you all! Carolyn Mayr ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- From: "Eugene Schmidt" <fereug@acute.co.za> To: "Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS}" <carolyn@cs.usna.edu> Subject: RE: Can't open boot device (need to fsck) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:31:50 +0200 Hi The boot device referred to here is the CD-Rom disk. I sugegst use CD 1 of 2 from the install set. ( I suspect you may be using the wrong one ?) Also ensure you are at least using SOlaris 9 4/04 or later. Best of luck regards E -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Carolyn Mayr {ITSD/CS} Sent: 05 January 2005 02:14 To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Can't open boot device (need to fsck) Help! I trashed my /etc/passwd file on my SunBlade 1500s and am trying to boot from my Solaris 9 installation CD. The system was frozen so I had to do a Stop-A then >boot cdrom -s I'm getting this error: Rebooting with command: boot cdrom -s Boot device: /pci@13,600000/ide@d/cdrom@2,0:f File and args: -s Cant' read disk label. Can't open disk label package Can't open boot device The problem is I need to do an fsck on the / system which got corrupted. That's probably why it can't read the boot device. Remember I don't have a root password so I can't type the password to fsck the Sun. I tried powering on/off and >boot -r but still the same error. Help! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Carolyn Mayr (IT Specialist/UNIX sysadm) Voice: 410-293-6808 (sec-6800) Computer Science Department, DivMath&Sci Email: carolyn@cs.usna.edu 572M Holloway Road, Michelson Hall, 9F FAX: 410-293-2686 U.S. Naval Academy WWW: http://www.cs.usna.edu Annapolis, MD 21402-5002 USNA: 410-293-1000 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Carolyn Mayr (IT Specialist/UNIX sysadm) Voice: 410-293-6808 (sec-6800) Computer Science Department, DivMath&Sci Email: carolyn@cs.usna.edu 572M Holloway Road, Michelson Hall, 9F FAX: 410-293-2686 U.S. Naval Academy WWW: http://www.cs.usna.edu Annapolis, MD 21402-5002 USNA: 410-293-1000 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jan 5 10:46:04 2005
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