Solaris 8 boot block
990261Apr 16 2013 — edited Apr 17 2013I have a Solaris 8 machine that was having a hard drive issue. I shut the system down and then it will not boot.
I booted off a CD and ran fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 and it came back with a superblock error and I typed yes to fix it. I then tried to boot again and it still would not boot.
I then tried to reinstall the boot block but that did not seem to help. # installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
Where is the boot block suppose to go? Does it always go on slice 0 of the boot drive or does it go where the root partition is located. The root partition is actually on slice 4 c0t0d0s4.
# df -k | grep dev
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 8256660 3799018 4375076 47% /
I have been fighting this issue all day. I am almost to the point of restoring the whole system. Thanks in advance.