boot failed: solaris server does not boot

Hi All,

one of my support person who has administrator previlages tried move the contents of root to trash directory, in the middle it got hung,and he had restrted the server.

Now the solaris does not boot. It says

boot failed

Enter Filename [/platform/sun4v/kernel/sparcv9/unix]

and what ever we enter there it says boot cannot read.

Please suggest some workaround, nearly 200 users are down, actually it is our licnese server.

[471 byte] By [munna624] at [2007-11-26 8:20:05]
# 1

Hi,

What you could try is the following :

Boot the system from the solaris cd into single user mode.

Find out what the disk is you need to mount and mount it under /a

After you have done this you can see if you can move back the stuff that was moved from the root directory to the trash.

If that works then you could try and boot again from the disk to see if everything works again.

Nico

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