What can I do if Solaris won't boot?

What can I do if Solaris won't boot?

You need to boot from your install CD.
Insert the Solaris Software CD in your CDROM drive.
If your CDROM drive/bios isn't bootable, first insert the
"Device Configuration Assistant" (DCA) diskette.
At the "Boot Solaris" menu, choose "CD."


At the "Type of Installation: Interactive or Jumpstart" menu,
type "b -s"


Or, after the video configuration, network, time and date you'll notice
one of the menu's has a button: [Exit] Select Exit and, when it asks
you again "do you want to exit?," just say yes.


Once you're at the UNIX root prompt #, you can mount the boot drive with
"mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt""
and view anything wrong with the boot drive (omit the "t0" for ATAPI).


[Modified from Bob Palowoda's Solaris 2.4 x86 FAQ]




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