[pca] Boot load failed.

[Open Source Rocks]

Randy,
Since December, most of the patches coming out from SUN are bad. As of yesterday I was notified that 137137-09 will render the server unbootable if using U6 and Veritas 5. There are other patches like this which do cause similar issues.

One, use Live Upgrade process to install Patches. Second, wait at least 90 days after the patch is released to install it on your production servers. 

-GGR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randal T. Rioux" <randy at procyonlabs.com>
To: pca at lists.univie.ac.at
Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 2:48:50 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [pca] Boot load failed.

Ok, this may not directly have anything to do with PCA, but you guys
provide better support than Sun, so here goes. My apologies if this has
been covered already (I couldn't find any reference).

- Sun t1125 (and 420R and v120)
- Fresh installation of Solaris 10u5
- ./pca -a -s -i

Patches away. Happy and well. Reboot machine and I get this message:

Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 0,0:a  File and args:
Boot load failed.
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
{0} ok

"The Google" shows there is a faulty kernel patch in there. WTF? I've been
in love with Sun so long I've been overlooking these slow forming
illnesses. I guess my questions are (1) how do I fix this, (2) what is
causing this and (3) why does Sun hide the resolution to only SunSolve
customers when it is a public patch that breaks the systems?

Thanks folks!
Randy