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  bob

  5 years ago

  i did a boot with CDROM using Solaris OS on Netra says the mount is busy or for ex:
  
  # mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt
  
  says already mounted and when i try to do cd /mnt
  
  similar when trying to mount /a already exists and when i try to unmount it says always busy
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  kem

  9 months ago

  yes because you are on /a mount (root). you must type pwd to see where you are ? and thereafter to go on root/ to cdrom and type umount /a so that ok
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  Anonymous

  5 years ago

  <ul id="quote"><h6>bob wrote:</h6>i did a boot with CDROM using Solaris OS on Netra says the mount is busy or for ex:
  
  # mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt
  
  says already mounted and when i try to do cd /mnt
  
  similar when trying to mount /a already exists and when i try to unmount it says always busy</ul>
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  Anonymous

  5 years ago

  run fsck <devicename>
  
  btw, thanks for original tip. it saved me from hours of reinstall.
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  qmchenry

  5 years ago

  I'm glad it helped. This technique has saved me many a reinstall, too.
  
  Bob, If you still can't see your boot disk, it may be called something different than c0t0d0s0. You can run iostat -En to find the names of disks, although this won't tell you which slice you need.
  
  Quinn
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  Anonymous

  4 years ago

  I'm glad for your help :twisted: ...we were living in a hell!!
  
  
  
  8O 8O 8O :P
  From spanish frikies DIELab
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  bunjibry

  4 years ago

  All - :?
  
  I consoled in because its off the network. I used the aforementioned process to boot by cdrom, but have had a 'NULL' result. after removing the password entry from /etc/shadow and saving (wq!), I issued an init 6 to reboot. from this point it asked me for the user login (no problem, its root so i typed root) but when just hitting enter when propted for password I get Login incorrect. :?:
  
  please help
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  Anonymous

  11 months ago

  Hi,
  
  My SunFire V440 won't boot from Solaris 9 Installation CDROM, Solaris 9 CD 1 of 2, or from Solaris 9 DVD. (boot cdrom)
  
  In all cases, it gets through the POST, initialises all memory, tells me the boot file and device, gives me the spinner and then tells me it cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix
  
  That's the 64-bit file, so I've tried giving it the normal location of the 32-bit file:
  kernel/unix
  
  It cannot open that file either.
  
  All I want to do is wipe its disks before sending it back to the leasing company.
  
  It has a working Solaris OS onboard. Any ideas how I can boot from the CD/DVD or how I can wipe the disks while booted from one of them?
  
  Thanks,
  cla.
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