boot-up failure

From: George Papadimitriou (georgep_at_nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:24:18 -0400 (EDT)
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org

    Hi all,

    I replaced the failed IDE hard drive of a SUN Ultra-10 workstation with a
    Seagate IDE hard drive borrowed from an Ultra-5 that is not being used
    anymore. I installed Solaris 2.7 from CD, and all went fine during
    installation. I can mount ok the root amd home partitions, while booted
    from the CD. The contents of the root partition look normal, and I can
    modify any configuration file that I wish.

    When I try to boot from the hard drive though, here is what happens:

    INITSH: /sbin/rcS: cannot execute

    INIT: Cannot create: /var/adm/utmp or /var/adm/utmpx

    INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "

    INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" "

    INIT: single user mode

    Once, I get into single user mode, I can't write anything to the disk.
    Here are some examples:

    $ touch /tmp/test
    touch: /test cannot create
    $ touch /test
    touch: /tmp/test cannot create

    $ df -k /
    fsrdlock_mnttab: open /etc/.mnttab.lock: No such file or directory

    Here is the root entry from /etc/vfstab
    /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1 no -

    Please, let me know if you need me to provide more info.

    I would really appreciate your input,

    George P.
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