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Hello all,

I just installed Solaris 10 on a x86. Nothing seemed to go awry, AFAIK.

After the very first reboot it fails to boot with this:

WARNING: exec(/sbin/init) file not found

(Could not start init)
Press any key to reboot.

So I'm stuck, it seems.

It does not seem that the / slice is missing as I guess I'd have a totally different error message, something like "could not mount root fs", I dunno.


I'm sure that if I could boot the install DVD in single mode I'd be able to go and really check if /sbin/init really exists.

Except that... I'm used to Sparc with its OPB, dunno how to get x86's equivalent to OpenBoot.

Anyway, anyone came across the same "missing file" problem after initial install, and if so, how did you get out of it ?

Bonus question, is there an equivalent to OpenBoot on x86 and how to reach it ?

Before you ask.. this PC ran on Solaris 9/x86 a looooong time ago, no hardware changes, so no need to send me to the HCL :)

Thanks,

Jeff