panic in boot loader - Solaris
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We had a power outage, and when I brought my system (Solaris 10 3/05)
up, it would come only boot in single user mode, suggesting that i
could (with some risks) use svcadmin to clear the boot archive (i
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panic in boot loader
Help!
We had a power outage, and when I brought my system (Solaris 10 3/05)
up, it would come only boot in single user mode, suggesting that i
could (with some risks) use svcadmin to clear the boot archive (i
can't remember the exact command). I did, and now the kernel won't
even load. Now I get:
[probably some stuff that scrolls by too fast to read]
cannot read biosint
trap type 13 (0xd) err code 0x98b8 eip=0x0
[bunch of register and stack trace data]
panic: unexpected trap in boot loader
Press any key to reboot
any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: panic in boot loader
long time after the fact, but thought I would post the fix that worked best for me so others could find a solution...
1. boot into failsafe mode; #mounting the drive read/write as /a
2. cd /a/platform/i86pc ; mv boot_archive boot_archive_bad
3. cd /
4. bootadm update-archive -R /a
5. shutdown -i 6
basically, the ramdisk profile has somehow gotten munged, so you need to get a new one 
many thanks to all the data on the web that was able to point me in the right direction... web sites that I found are listed below:
7. Troubleshooting (Solaris x86 FAQ)
Fixing a Solaris Boot Archive | Flux
BigAdmin Feature Article: GRUB and the Solaris 10 1/06 OS: The New Bootloader for x86 Platforms
-swc