[4382] in testers
Re: Solaris "continually update" problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 24 17:14:00 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200005242113.RAA15109@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200005241750.NAA13049@small-gods.mit.edu>
> So, there was a window between maybe 5pm last night and about 10am
> this morning
Sigh. Make that "from about 5pm last night to about 5pm tonight."
But it's fixed now, I'm pretty sure. (I failed to propagate the fix
properly this morning.)
On the up side, I did come up with rescue instructions if you find a
machine in this state (this assumes a normal disk setup):
* At some point shortly after the machine reboots, hit stop-A.
* At the prom, type:
setenv boot-device disk
boot disk:b -s
* It will spew some errors. When it asks you for a root
password, hit return. You should get a shell prompt.
* Run these commands:
mountall
modload /kernel/misc/nfssrv
modload /kernel/fs/afs
/etc/afsd -nosettime -daemons 4
installboot /os/usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
reboot
mountall will probably spew some errors. No need to worry.
* All should be well.
