--- Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: > >> You mean like the "Solaris failsafe" entry on the > >> GRUB menu (either > >> locally or the one gathered using PXE) of Solaris > >> Express installs and > >> the similar entries on Nextena and Belenix ? > > > > So that is what that is? > > Why not try it and see :-)
Love to. > > It is a small (less than 60Mb) RAM disk image that > contains the kernel > an a smallish root filesystem with a lot of the > common utils. When it > boots it looks for all the Solaris installs it can > find on that machine > and also out of sync boot archives and offers to > fix them and/or mount > up the root filesystems. > > Its a rescue image basically. :D. There's my answer. I guess going through a local archive of docs.sun.com will be able to give me the details of the boot process with respect to Solaris on x86? Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
