A suggestion: Boot a LiveCD Mount the existing system drive Mount a USB hard drive Make a ./ relative tarball of the non-bootable system on the USB drive Build a new system and then extract what you want to keep from the tarball Good luck, Reg -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 8/31/16, Christopher Robinson via illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote: Subject: [discuss] OpenSolaris Boot Failure To: discuss@lists.illumos.org Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 5:26 PM I am experiencing an inabilty to boot to the Gnome desktop on OpenSolaris 2009.06. This was most likely caused by powering off without shutting down first, although I have done that many times before with no problems. I can login to the control con- sole and I have tried the command "bootadm update-archive", but that did not work. I am able to get a live desktop in Gnome using my original OpenSolaris CD, as well as OI Hipster. Is there any way to access my files from either of those? It was suggested to me on the openindiana discuss-list that I install OI Hipster and migrate my files over. However, the installer only allows one Solaris partition and warns that it will overwrite the data. I do not have a clone of my hard disk, so I need to make sure that there will be no data loss. Any help with this problem is greatly appreciated.
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