how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get
CDE desktop login.

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how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get CDE desktop login...

Answer / srinivas

bootblock location is /usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs

bring the system in singleusermode
go to /usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs location
then exute command is installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s0
then boot block is loaded to bootable disk.

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how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get CDE desktop login...

Answer / hyma

bring the system in singleusermode
go to /usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs location
then exute command is installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s0
then boot block is loaded to bootable disk.

This one is correct but small change /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s2

We need to install the bootblk in to second slice(S2).

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how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get CDE desktop login...

Answer / munna

bring server into single user mode..........and execute

#installboot /usr/platform/'uname -i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s2

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how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get CDE desktop login...

Answer / prasad

first we need to know the boot block loacation
i.e /usr/platform/'uname -m'/lib/fs/ufs is the location for
bootblock.
then go to single user mode using #init 0
then u need to run the command ok> installboot bootblk
c#t#d#s0. so the bootblock is located at bootable disk.

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how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get CDE desktop login...

Answer / juganveer khosa

boot server in single user mode ,
type newfs -N to see the starting address for alternate
bootblock locations then use
fsck -o bs=alternate location (mostly 32) /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s#

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