My original posting was:
>When I boot my sun, it checks the memory,
>access the disk briefly and gives this:
>
>Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0
>Checksum d4f4eda9 != 4d588702 Trying to boot anyway
>Instruction Access Exception
My original posting was:
>When I boot my sun, it checks the memory,
>access the disk briefly and gives this:
>
>Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0
>Checksum d4f4eda9 != 4d588702 Trying to boot anyway
>Instruction Access Exception
>
>Any ideas? I tried replacing the boot file and I tried compiling a new kernel b
ut I always get the
>same error.
>
The solution was to run the installboot program.
I booted off another disk, mounted the disk with the defective
boot file on /mnt.
Then I did:
cd /usr/mdec
./installboot /mnt/boot bootsd /dev/rsd0a
I rebooted and the operation was successful.
I want to thank the following people for their answers
(If I missed any, I apologize):
holle@austin.nam.slb.com
ems@ccrl.nj.nec.com
heas@chpc.org
tkevans@fallst.es.dupont.com
craven@cg.emr.ca
strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU
drew@mtu.edu
pjc@denver.ssds.COM
patrick@alex.state.COM.AU
pluto!perryh@neon.rain.com
akadin@vulcan.pwcm.com
kuhn@math.harvard.edu
swanes@eq.gs.com
tperala@ua.d.umn.edu
erics@fsg.com
heiser@tdwr.ed.ray.com
johnm@sse.com
miker@il.us.swissbank.com
hkatz@NUCMED.MED.NYU.EDU
poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com
cal@soac.bellcore.com
stuart@orac.HQ.ileaf.com
ekurgpol@Law.USC.EDU
glenn@uniq.com.au
Yves Lepage
yves@cc.mcgill.ca
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