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During a restart of a server with Solaris 11, the system halted with the following alert:

WARNING: exec(/usr/sbin/init) failed with errno 8. (unix: Could not start init) Program terminated.

The operating system keeps on reboot and never comes online. Since init is one of the first processes to come up we are assuming that we will never be able to log onto the server.

Is there a way that we can log into the system and check what the issue is, and possible resolve it?

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As far as I know, errno 8 is "exec format error", which tells me init might somehow be corrupted. Maybe this helps. –  schaiba Oct 29 '13 at 18:40
    
Yes @schaiba, you're right. errno 8 is in fact an exec format error. However going into the system to check and possible fix that is a bit of a problem. –  oneway Oct 30 '13 at 7:24
    
Can you try booting from a different media (CD, DVD, bootserver), and check the boot disk? Could be a disk problem. Otherwise, if you manage to get the exact version of Solaris, you could make some diff. –  ludiegu Oct 30 '13 at 8:13

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