Re: Solaris 9 install crashes after reboot

From: Nick Allen (jnallen@swbell.net)
Date: 04/18/03 

From: "Nick Allen" <jnallen@swbell.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 06:12:05 GMT

"T.Paakki" <trp24@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6358a14b.0304171107.488835ed@posting.google.com...
> I am trying to put Solaris 9 on an E250. After several mishaps with
> burning the ISO's, I finally got a set to work. I lay out the drives
> and run through the install process. After it gets done with cd 3,
> the system reboots and checks memory, then creates a huge dump on the
> screen, complains something about there not being a dump device and
> reboots, erasing the message, the cycle just repeats, memory check,
> dump, reboot.
>
> I have already tried a reinstallation from the same media. Something
> tells me this isn't a media issue, though.
>
> It reports that it is attempting to boot from disk:a , File and Args
> are blank which I thought was strange.
>
> Has anyone else had such misfortunte? How do you resolve or even
> begin to troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks

I would start with looking at this page:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc%2F23476

and at the bottom of this page:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=content/content2

Check that the disk:a alias is the disk you really mean to boot from. If it
is, then there might be more information given with boot -v. (I doubt this
helps much though.) You could boot cdrom -s, then try and mount the
filesystems you just installed on, and look at the installboot command. It
might also help to check that the prom revision is current.

If you could somehow capture the boot attempt and dump, and post it, someone
might have more info than this.

I hope this helps,

Nick

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