just installed solaris on my dell pc. I partinon my hard drive to dual boot solaris and windows.
window works fine and solaris as well but after login in more to 3 times in solaris i keep getting this error as below and as a result i could not login again.
I have re-installed several times but keep having the same problem.
The error is as shown below:
warning: /pci@0,0 /pci-ide@1f , 2/ide@0 (ata2)
timeout: abort request, target=0
Warning: //pci@0,0 /pci-ide@1f , 2/ide@0 /cmdk@0,0 (disk 0)
Error for command write sector error level information
sense key aborted command
vendor 'Gen-ata error code: 0*3
Warning Error reading Master
Warning: //pci@0,0 /pci-ide@1f , 2/ide@0 /cmdk@0,0 (disk 0)
Warning : UFS log for / change state to error
Warning please umount(1M) / and run fsck(1M)
vendor 'Gen-ata error code: 0*3
Warning exec(/sbin/init) failed
(unix: could not start init)
did you check the iostat -En to see if there are any hard errors? performed any fsck? Coz it looks like a write error to disk.
If that does not solve your problem, try swapping the HD (an older IDE which was running fine), could be with a bigger capacity, do a couple of reboots after re-install and check.
boot the system to fail safe mode, then run fsck like this:
fsck -F ufs -y /dev/rdsk/cxtxdxsx <---- perform the same for all slices, s0, s2 s3, and so on..
Then reboot your system