Subject: Re: Sun4m - How do I remove the *BSD boot block?
To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Derek=20McCallum?= <derek_mccallum@yahoo.com>
From: Julian C. Dunn <jdunn@aquezada.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/28/2003 12:26:17
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Derek McCallum wrote:

> I can format the disks and mount them as a file system
> under another solaris system, and can reinstall
> Solaris on them as the root device. But they fail to
> boot with the following message:
>
> Rebooting with command:
> Boot device:
> /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0:a
> File and args:
> boot: cannot find misc/krtld
> boot: error loading interpreter (misc/krtld)
> Elf32 read error.
> boot failed
> Enter filename
> [/platform/SUNW,SPARCstation-20/kernel/unix]:

Are you sure you did not hose the PROM/NVRAM in some fashion somewhere
along the line. Did you try to reset-factory-defaults just to be sure?

- Julian

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