On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 22:31 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > Octave Orgeron wrote: > > Hmm.. if you're sata drive is hot-plug, disconnect it and boot with the > > liveCD, then connect it. See if you can access the drive that way. It may > > be a defective drive and gone bust. Or worse, the mainboard has a fault. > > > > > MB boots another OS on different drive. Disconnecting OpenSolaris hd still > doesn't let me boot liveCD, but I can boot to e.g. OpenBSD CD just fine. > > I can sometimes boot to -m milestone=none, but not consistently, so sure > sounds like hd, but... I don't think it's a HD issue, otherwise why cannot I > boot liveCD when HD is disconnected? > > Ideas?? > > btw- box is also connected to UPS so that should preclude power outage/crash > corruption.
I've subsequently determined that some RAM decided to spontaneously go wonky. Problem solved. Thanks to Octave for the nudge to get me thinking about hardware issues. Peace-- Ken -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
