> sigh.. this is a painful place to be. I've had to
> debug my way out of here several times. Kernel boot
> fails at mount root due to any number of previous
> errors.
> The message when it fails is not helpful. There's
> also
> not a silver bullet to finding the problem.
> 
> The vfs_mountroot() is really just calling the
> various
> mountroot functions in usr/src/uts/common/fs to see
> which succeeds - you're probably should be getting
> ufs_mountroot() when it works successfully
> 
This is actually being fun and instructive. I decided to browse the Solaris 
Internals book to search for something related to the boot code path and found 
out about the VFS chapter. With this motivation it is much less boring to read 
an entire chapter, so I am starting the book through VFS. If you think I could 
benefit from some other part to understand mountroot, please let me know.
If/When I get some news on this, I'll post it here.
Thanks for all your explanations.

-- Doug
 
 
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