Okay, my last update for today! :-)
Well, I tried it, and boy did it fail! :-)
I may have misread Ketan's "change the instance numbers from 0 to
2000..."... I changed EVERY INSTANCE NUMBER IN THE FILE, adding 2000 to
it! :-O
Then, it failed to boot. (Well, actually, it "kind of" booted, but
the disk check failed, and it said to enter root password or type ^D, but
no typing "got through".
Then, AFTER that (:-O), I thought... "oh well, maybe he meant just
the instance numbers of this card..." :-)
Well, after the lightning strike, when you were helping me try
things, I wound up using
- and setting the original value of all
the environment variables back to their default. This meant I was booting
off my smaller disk that I had originally!
So, I changed boot-device to disk1 and booted just fine. I then
mounted the smaller disk on an "old_disk" directory. I went in and
restored the file to the way it was, and made just the four entries 2000
through 2003.
A "touch /reconfigure" and reboot did reboot, just fine.
However, I get pretty well the EXACT error in the last message, with
hme1 and hme2 showing up.
(And, I realize [now] that he said Solaris 8 doesn't support 802.1q
on BGE interfaces, and mine isn't the same kind of interface, but hey, I
was wanting it to work!) :-D
I will be doing some things with my mother. I probably am about
finished, for today.
I actually like this. I may experiment on the smaller disk. Once I
get it working, I'll do the same thing on the larger disk, which is the
one I have actually been booting from since I put it in until when I reset
the default environment variable values regarding what you were helping me
with after the lightning strike. Then, if I do something else "really
stupid", I can (hopefully/probably?) get it booted, and fixed, and
continue trying to figure things out! :-D
I'm out of ideas, at the moment. That's my status. I anxiously
await your advice and opinions, and the kind way you have of not
"deriding" me for stupid things like what I just did! :-D
Barry
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