solaris 10 install

Crazy_lenny · 05-13-2005, 12:41 PM

Hi dear linux/unix friends.

I have quite a wierd problem. I have at home a sun ultra workstation 10. In the passed I always used it to run RH(zoot) or debian. I also played a bit with solaris 9 in the passed but it never really convinced me. Since Sun has gone more or less OSS with solaris 10 i decided to try it again. I downloaded the isos' , installed it ,but got stuck after the auto reboot. The system boots but asks me the root pwd for maintenance mode. I never had this in solaris 9. it seems to be somekind of runlevel 1 but it seems there is no filesystem available (no i am not in eeprom, kernel already booted), so i can basicly do nothing because i have no binairies available.

I find this quite weird because i did not use the auto layout utility (tried it again with that one too but same error) and i configured the partiontions myself with the corrrect layout and overlap(so not like bsd

)

resume execution in eeprom does not help either. What is really wrong?

cheers and thx in advance

jlliagre · 05-14-2005, 08:48 AM

Can you tell more about the system state after you log in in maintenance mode ?

Can you access the /var/sadm/system/logs directory ?

Crazy_lenny · 05-14-2005, 09:11 AM

Many many thanks for your reply

No it seems like that there is not a filesystem available. So I can't access any logs or use any binaries. From what I can see the partition utility of the install program is not functioning properly.
I already tried several different layouts with the overlap en i also tried the autolayout utility but all give the same problem. The weird thing is that i can install solaris 9 without a problem and that there my partition layouts work.

I am using a sun ultra 10 which has an ultrasparc 2i proc and and a regular ide harddrive

Isn't there a way for me to directly access an utility like fdisk or cfdisk so i can partition the the harddrives myself?

Many thanks! A lot appreciated.

jlliagre · 05-14-2005, 09:26 AM

What makes you believe there is no filesystem ?
If you reach a point where the O/S runs, it has already been loaded from a filesystem ...

Crazy_lenny · 05-14-2005, 09:35 AM

well , you are right that the system is not booted. and true i get no kernel mesages so the kernel is not loaded

So when the system boots it tells me

Boot device :/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a

SUN OS 5.10 Version Generic 64 bit
Use is subject to license terms
Setting hostname = sun

Warning /usr/sbin/fsck not found. most likly mount of /usr or /usr filesystem failed.

Requesting system maintenance mode
Console login services cannot run

root password for system maintenance (control -d to bypass):

I can't bypass the login with control -d and when i login I have nothing available, no filesystems, nothing. It is the same problem with all the different layouts that i have tried.

jlliagre · 05-15-2005, 06:28 AM

The kernel is booted, as it is the one trying to mount /usr and fails.

You probably still can have a look at your /etc/vfstab file, although you're missing cat to do it, that way:

Code:

while read a
do
echo $a
done < /etc/vfstab

Compare that the output of the command "mount -p"

Did you tried a layout with a single / partition with all on it ?