[SunRescue] Help with Rescue, please

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Folks-

I'm still wrestling with my IPX, and I could use some help.

I had a small patch-cluster-application disaster a few days ago; I tried to 
apply the set of recommended patches for Solaris 7, and the process hung 
about halfway through.  After getting out of it, I was left with a 
non-bootable machine.

The two main courses I've followed are ...

(1) Boot from CDROM into single-user mode, follow the "How to restore the 
root and /usr file systems" instructions from the System Administration 
Guide Volume 1.

(2) Boot from CDROM and re-install Solaris 7 from scratch.

I've tried several variations on these themes, and the results have all 
been the same: when I try to boot from the hard drive, it says "bootblk: 
can't find the boot program."  This is in spite of my running installboot 
as part of the restoration process, or letting the Solaris installer do it.

Got any idea on how I can get this thing going again?  I could sure use 
'em.

-Shel