Replace bootblock in Solaris

Sun hardware status

Probing system devices
Probing memory
Probing I/O buses

Sun Fire V240, No Keyboard

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OpenBoot 4.22.19, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #76523464.

Ethernet address 0:14:4f:8f:a7:c8, Host ID: 848fa7c8.


Initializing     1MB of memory at addr		127feec000                                                                   
Initializing     1MB of memory at addr		127fe90000                                                                     
Initializing    15MB of memory at addr		127f000000                                                                     
Initializing  2032MB of memory at addr 		1200000000                                                                     
Initializing  2048MB of memory at addr 		1000000000                                                                     
Initializing  2048MB of memory at addr		200000000                                                                    
Initializing  2048MB of memory at addr      0                                                                     

Rebooting with command: boot

Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/LSILogic,scsi@3/disk@2,0:a File and args: The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

{1} ok  

Boot from a CDROM

Get a physical media with Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 (prior to 10/08 release). To boot from a CDROM from the openboot firmware and bring up the machine in a single user mode by typing

{1} ok  boot cdrom –s 

Replace the bootblock

installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0