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

Answer Posted / 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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