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by **Lupei Zh** » Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:40:13

Hi,

I repartitioned the IDE disk of my pentium pro box running x86 2.6
(to add linux and w98). After restoring all file systems from the tape

using ufsrestore (I also did installboot), I now couldn't boot the
solaris. the process failed at the very beginning saying:

Unable to mount a Solaris root file system from the device:
DISK: IDE taget 0 ...

so I boot to single user mode from the CD-ROM and checked
/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 with prtvtoc and fsck, no
problem, I can mount it manually.

could someone help me to solve this problem?

thanks

Lupei

by **Cass** » Sat, 16 Jun 2001 04:04:44

Sounds like your boot block is corrupt, probably linux's fault , check out
the following link to sort it out.

http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/7.html#7.1

Cass

> Hi,

> I repartitioned the IDE disk of my pentium pro box running x86 2.6
> (to add linux and w98). After restoring all file systems from the tape

> using ufsrestore (I also did installboot), I now couldn't boot the
> solaris. the process failed at the very beginning saying:

> Unable to mount a Solaris root file system from the device:
> DISK: IDE taget 0 ...

> so I boot to single user mode from the CD-ROM and checked
> /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 with prtvtoc and fsck, no
> problem, I can mount it manually.

> could someone help me to solve this problem?

> thanks

> Lupei

HELP: couldn't boot after restore, no vtoc