From: Loris Serena (loris.serena@bt.com)
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 05:50:16 EDT
> Hi SunManagers,
>
> After applying in single user mode the following patches on a Sun W1100z
> workstation running Solaris 10 x86/64 03/05,
>
> 118344-08-SunOS 5.10_x86: Fault Manager Patch
> 118966-19-X11 6.8.0_x86: Xorg patch
> 119060-12-X11 6.6.2_x86: Xsun patch
> 119116-17-Mozilla 1.7_x86 patch
> 119549-04-GNOME 2.6.0_x86: Gnome Multi-protocol instant messaging client
> Pat
> 119901-02-GNOME 2.6.0_x86: Gnome libtiff - library for reading and writing
> T
> 122035-01-SunOS 5.10_x86: nawk patch
> 122857-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: sendmail patch
> 118372-07-SunOS 5.10_x86: elfsign Patch
> 118855-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
> 118919-12-SunOS 5.10_x86: Solaris Crypto Framework patch
> 119131-19-SunOS 5.10_x86: Sun Fibre Channel Device Drivers
> 120901-03-SunOS 5.10_x86: libzonecfg patch
> 121334-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: zoneadmd, zlogin and zoneadm patch
> 119255-19-SunOS 5.10_x86: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
> 120255-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: ufs Patch
> 122033-02-SunOS 5.10_x86: Update timezones patch
>
> I rebooted the system and it came up with a "panic: cannot mount boot
> archive".
> Googling around, I kind of found out how to get around this, which is:
>
> I booted from cdrom 1 of Solaris 10 x86 (01/06) and ran the following:
> # mount /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /a
> # bootadm update-archive -f -R /a
>
> Now the W1100z boots up fine, but still, comparing the grub menu options
> on the W1100z (natively 03/05) to another one (32 bit, unfortunately)
> which I have installed from scratch with the 01/06 media, there is no
> "Solaris failsafe" boot option.
>
> On the 32bit 01/06, I can see the following in /boot/grub/menu.lst
> #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
> title Solaris failsafe
> root (hd0,0,a)
> kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
> module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe
> #---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
> With /boot/multiboot and /boot/x86.miniroot-safe existing under /boot.
>
> But, these files are not present on the 64 bit W1100z.
>
> Any idea about how to get this sorted?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Loris
>
>
>
>
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