Booting solaris 9: /etc/bootrc?

Question

I have installed solaris in PIII 500 and all works perfect during instalation, but when reboot to run this message appear:
<i>boot:source: open of '/etc/bootrc' failed</i>
I try to boot with the software CD1 of 2 and it say the same
I'm changing from windows and my knowledge of unix is limited, so can you give me solutions with simple words?
Thanks to all

Answer 1

Do you have more than one HDD installed in the system, and did you
try to install Solaris to the secondardy disk?
It seems the <font face="Courier">boot: source: open of '/etc/bootrc' failed</font>
problem is a bug in the Solaris installer. It writes the wrong bootpath
property to the root filesystem of the new Solaris installation.
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I just tried to install Solaris 10 b69 on c1d0s6.
c0d0 is the boot disk, master device on the primary ide channel.
c1d0 is another ide disk, master device on the secondary ide channel.
The physical device path for c1d0s6 is
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# ls -l /dev/dsk/c1d0s6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jan 9 2004 /dev/dsk/c1d0s6 ->
../../devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@1/cmdk@0,0:g
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But the installer writes this to /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc:
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# grep bootpath /sol10/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc
setprop bootpath /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0:g
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(Note: "<a href="mailto:ide&#64;0" target="_blank">ide&#64;0</a>" instead of "<a href="mailto:ide&#64;1" target="_blank">ide&#64;1</a>")
Solaris 10 cannot be booted from the secondary disk, the Solaris boot code
reports:
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Run Error: File not found
boot: source: open of '/etc/bootrc' failed
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Changing the bogus bootpath in bootenv.rc fixes the boot problem.
It should be possible to fix the bootpath by interrupting the boot process
with ESC, and setting the correct boot device in the "Boot Tasks" submenu
on the last screen named "Boot Solaris".