Over the weekend, I asked:
>I had a very strange experience with a SparcServer today. I had
>reloaded the OS from CD-ROM, then restored the root filesystem from
>backup tape. On rebooting, the system flashed a quick message
>"vmunix" checksum [ some number ] != [ othernumber ] trying to boot
>anyway"
>
>At this point, what appeared to be /usr/etc/install/add_services
>(the shell script), or possibly /usr/etc/install/extract_unbundled,
>began scrolling up the screen! (I am not imagining this.)
>
>After several repeats of this event, I concluded that I had to
>re-do the reload from CD-ROM. Booting from CD-RM then did the
>very same thing! Same error message, same shell script, except
>that it aborted to the boot prompt after 2 or 3 screensful
>of text (from the script).
>
>Finally, I was able to boot the miniroot from tape and reload
>once again. (This time I didn't restore from the backup tape.)
>The system is now running OK.
>
>Does anyone have any idea of what in the world this was?
Thanks to the following for quick replies:
From: jpl@allegra.att.com (John P. Linderman)
From: dasun!wdceng!muir@sunkist.West.Sun.COM (Scott Muir (Muir) x6764)
From: blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
From: Matt Crawford <matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
From: Wolfg. Koppenhoefer <wk@ict.fhg.de>
From: mwblas@nicsn1.monsanto.com (Marc W. Blaskie)
Everyone reminded me that I should have run 'installboot' after
having restored from tape. No one, though, had any ideas on why
attempting to reload from CD-ROM generated the same results.
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