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| Johan Louwers 2004-02-08, 9:34 pm |
| This morning I turned on the screen of my ultra-10 and I found a error
message "message overflow on /dev/minor#6 minor#6 -- syslogd
syslogd(1M) running?
The computer was not responding on the keyboard and or mouse so had
hade to do a hard reboot. After this this system was getting on-line
online. However the problem now is that it starts like this after a
couple of reboots from th OK prompt:
Reboot with command: boot
Boot device: disk:a File args args:
Shot 0x2000 0x2000 chars read
disk read error
Shot 0x2000 0x2000 chars read
disk read error
boot: cannot find sparcv9/krtld/krtld
boot: eeror loading interpreter (sparcv9/krtld/krtld)
Elf64 read error.
boot failed
Enter filename [/sun4u/sun4u/sparcv9/unix/unix]:
I do not have a clue how to solve this problem.... can I force a disk
repair repait command from the OK prompt to try and solve this
problem.... Anybody ever had something like this?
Regards,
Johan.
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| Doug Freyburger 2004-02-10, 1:35 am |
| Johan Louwers wrote:
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> Reboot with command: boot
> Boot device: disk:a File args args:
> Shot 0x2000 0x2000 chars read
> disk read error
> Shot 0x2000 0x2000 chars read
> disk read error
> boot: cannot find sparcv9/krtld/krtld
> boot: eeror loading interpreter (sparcv9/krtld/krtld)
> Elf64 read error.
> boot failed
> Enter filename [/sun4u/sun4u/sparcv9/unix/unix]:
That looks like hardware. It made it into the kernel so the blocks
containing the bootstrap blocks are intact. But either the directory
tree has been smashed or some blocks went bad (small scale head crash).
> I do not have a clue how to solve this problem.... can I force a disk
> repair repait command from the OK prompt to try and solve this
> problem....
At least you know the drive is spinning.
You can boot from the installation CD-ROM, go into single user mode
from it, and try fsck on the device from there. It will attempt to
repair the damage. Given the messages above it is unlikely to
succeed. Also run format from there and do a surface analysis to
reassign bad blocks. If there are only a few bad blocks the disk
will become usable. But once a drive starts giving new bad blocks it
will give more and more of them.
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| JasonDalziel@notmicrosoft.com 2004-02-10, 11:35 am |
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The problem sounds kinda hardware like, you may have to boot off your
Solaris CD and use format to see if you can do any repair on the disk.
You'll probably have to do FSCK after doing this at that point you
should be able to pull off the data by mounting the paritions (hoping
that the disk isn't completly screwed)
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:21:25 +0100, Johan Louwers
<suntacNOSPAMPLEASE@dds.nl> wrote:
>This morning I turned on the screen of my ultra-10 and I found a error
>message "message overflow on /dev/minor#6 minor#6 -- syslogd
>syslogd(1M) running?
>
>The computer was not responding on the keyboard and or mouse so had
>hade to do a hard reboot. After this this system was getting on-line
>online. However the problem now is that it starts like this after a
>couple of reboots from th OK prompt:
>
>Reboot with command: boot
>Boot device: disk:a File args args:
>Shot 0x2000 0x2000 chars read
>disk read error
>Shot 0x2000 0x2000 chars read
>disk read error
>boot: cannot find sparcv9/krtld/krtld
>boot: eeror loading interpreter (sparcv9/krtld/krtld)
>Elf64 read error.
>boot failed
>Enter filename [/sun4u/sun4u/sparcv9/unix/unix]:
>
>I do not have a clue how to solve this problem.... can I force a disk
>repair repait command from the OK prompt to try and solve this
>problem.... Anybody ever had something like this?
>
>Regards,
>Johan.
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