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After upgrading to Solaris 10 "Can't load the root filesystem" on V245

807559Mar 30 2007 — edited Apr 8 2007
I have a Sunfire V245 that was running on Solaris 9 (very stable). I upgraded to Solaris 10 (6/06) this morning and everything seemed to go smoothly. After the upgrade the system rebooted, but will not boot. I get the following uptput;

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-17 64-bit
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Use is subject to license terms.
pxb_bcm: cannot load driver
Cannot load drivers for /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk@0,0:a
Can't load the root filesystem
Type 'go' to resume

"go" attempts to reboot, but I end up back in the same place.
Please help.

Thanks in advanced,
Craig

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807557
Moin!

I did also download the most recent (DVD) ISO did a setup_install_server
and didn't have that problem. I did however skip the burn step and instead
mounted the ISO directly via loopback devices:

# lofiadm -a /jumpstart/OS/isos/sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd.iso
/dev/lofi/7
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/7 /mnt/10u2

When looking at the files system of this mount the Boot directory is not
linked and as said the setup_install_server worked fine.

Hope this helps
-Ralf
user4994457
Correct. The CD is a bit low on space, so the boot files are only present in a SPARC UFS filesystem (necessary so the CD is bootable). The x86 box won't read that filesystem (either from CD or from an image).

You'd need to either build at least one SPARC machine, mount the CD there, then copy the files over to the x86 box.

Or as mentioned, use the DVD image. The space there allows the boot code to be duplicated in two places so the x86 box can read it.

--
Darren
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