I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on a T2000 with a Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) inside. The machine gave lots of problems. One of the issues was the following message which the machine logged hundreds if not thousands of times: Oct 23 22:18:27 hostname fmd: SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-1L,…

I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on two T2000 machines and was extremely surprised to find a serious bug with the fmd (Fault Management Daemon) service. The service would, seemingly at random, fail to start on boot. It wouldn’t actually fail though- it just never finished starting. This caused numerous side effects including that prtdiag,…

A disk I have in a production machine went bad: d4: Mirror Submirror 0: d14 State: Okay Submirror 1: d24 State: Needs maintenance Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin (default) Write option: parallel (default) Size: 120850176 blocks (57 GB) d14: Submirror of d4 State: Okay Size: 120850176 blocks (57 GB) Stripe 0: Device Start Block…

If you’ve ever wondered how to determine your current run level, use the command who -r This works for Solaris and Linux (at least the ones I’ve tested)

The Solaris Flash installation feature enables you to use a single reference installation of the Solaris OS on a system, which is called the master system. Then, you can replicate that installation on a number of systems, which are called clone systems. You can replicate clone systems with a Solaris Flash initial installation that…