boot-up failure

From: George Papadimitriou (georgep@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 20:24:18 EDT


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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