how to recover the boot block in soalris 9,i am able to get
CDE desktop login.

Answer Posted / hyma

bring the system in singleusermode
go to /usr/platform/`uname -m`/lib/fs/ufs location
then exute command is installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s0
then boot block is loaded to bootable disk.

This one is correct but small change /dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s2

We need to install the bootblk in to second slice(S2).

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