russell aspinwall wrote: > As part of a my Solaris 10 installation I needed to install a device > driver to recognise my disk controller to access my hard disk. As an > experiment one day I booted into Solaris Safe Mode but found that I > could not access my hard disk as the disk controller was not detected > and therefore no disks were found. > > Assuming that the future release of the OpenSolaris LiveCD will allow > the user to install a device driver (like Solaris after the grub boot > during the initial stages of the install). > > Are the device drivers incorporated into the Normal Boot and Safe > Mode environments? >
There is no safe mode provided in OpenSolaris at this time. > If the device drivers are not added to the Safe Mode environment, > will there be a provision to be able to install drivers temporarily > in order to access and mount drives? > There is nothing actively attempting to prevent it at this time. A root-only IPS or SVR4 package should be installable in the live CD environment. > If the drivers are incorporated into the Safe Mode Environment and > you update with a newer device driver which replaces the good driver > with a bad driver. Will it be possible to remove the newer driver and > add the old device driver to the Safe Mode environment in order to > access the disk controller and drive then replace the newer driver > installed on the drive? See above. Dave
