Monthly Archives: March 2009

panic[cpu1]/thread=d10d1de0: Too many lgrps for platform (4)

On a Solaris jumpstart with Update 6 on an amd64 machine came up with this error using the x86.miniroot that it came with: panic[cpu1]/thread=d10d1de0: Too many lgrps for platform (4) I grabbed the x86.miniroot from the 200805 version of Solaris … Continue reading

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nwrecover directed recover failure

I was trying to restore some data from a Solaris 9 dedicated storage node to a Solaris 10 client. Since the Solaris 10 is a client then that means that the recover will go through the network. Everything was fine … Continue reading

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Solaris 10 patching: No patches required

We ran into a problem where we weren’t getting any newer updates than a certain patch. Smpatch always kept saying:   smpatch analyze No patches required.   I know there were new patches because Update 6 came out and there … Continue reading

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driver:Microsoft ISATAP yellow exclamation point

So a customer had a problem with their Dell laptop where in the device manager, a yellow exclamation point is there for a isatap 4to6. My coworker found this article which basically says “don’t worry about it, everything is working … Continue reading

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clearing boot archive not in failsafe

The other day we had a Solaris 10 server turn off because the power was cut. As a result unfortunately, I couldn’t net boot or anything and the failsafe didn’t have the CPQary3 driver for the hard drive and just … Continue reading

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root_archive broken, can’t boot from Update 6 failsafe

=== Update 05/13/2009 === Looks like if I take the multiboot from /platform/i86pc/multiboot or from the update 6 dvd and put it into /boot/multiboot.update6 and then edit the grub menu too boot off that in the failsafe, it works fine! … Continue reading

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