SUMMARY: Cannot re-install Solaris 8

Dear Sunmanagers

 

Thanks to everyone that replied. Sorry for the long
delay in posting a
summary. As suggested by almost everyone that replied, the
problem was
the hard disk. After replacing the hard disk I was able to
re-install
Solaris 8.

 

Thanks to

Michael Sullivan

John Stoffel
Joe Fletcher

Joachim Jaeckel

Brad Morrison

Chris Hughes
elw@stderr.org

 

Regards

Shiroma
________________________________

From: Shiroma Dassanayake 
Sent:
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:51 PM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Cannot re-install Solaris 8

 

Dear Sunmanagers

 

I have
an Ultra 5 running Solaris 8  Version Generic_108528_29. On
rebooting the
system (either multiuser or single user runlevel), the
system panics and
restarts. 

 

In an effort to remedy this situation, I did the following:
Entered "ok" prompt and ran "boot cdrom" with the Solaris 8 (2/02) cd.
Results:

 

Part of the installation completes successfully (sytem
identification)
but the installation encounters errors when the filesystem
has to be
created. The error(s) are as follows:

 

WARNING: timeout:
reset target chno = 0 targ = 0

                 timeout: reset bus chno = 0
targ = 0

                 Drive not ready before set_features
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0(dad0)

                 Transport rejected
(-2)

 

ERROR: File system creation failed for / (c0t0d0s0) could not
check or
create system critical file systems. 

              Could not
update disks with new configuration

 

Any ideas???

 

Thanks and
regards

Shiroma

 

 

 

 

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