a b wrote: >> Safe mode just boots into the miniroot archive and doesn't attempt to mount >> the root that's on the USB disk, so that's why you don't see the problem. >> >> I'd think the issue is that whatever device path is in bootenv.rc is not >> the path that's seen by the kernel when booting off the USB drive, but I >> haven't traced back through the mountroot code to verify that. > > Thank You for Your replies so far. > Perhaps a better question would be, since I already tried modifying > /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc, and that did not work, how could I determine > what that path is during the boot attempt? >
Did you re-generate the boot archive after updating bootenv.rc? Booting into failsafe should offer that option. I seem to recall that adding -v to the boot options will get the path to print. Been a while since I had to, though, so I may be hallucinating. Dave
