Never mind. The immediate problem is fixed.
Although it would be useful to know if failsafe boot is possible in future.
Hugh.
Hugh McIntyre wrote:
So I have a system which crashed last night, and then fails to boot
afterwards because of boot archive problems.
The fact that the Happy Face boot screen sits there forever is a bug in
and of itself (is there a bug on this already?), since if you disable
the splash screen the reason for the bug is a bad boot archive followed
by an error message and prompt for single user mode. Instead, whenever
there's an error the user is going to need to do something about, the
splash screen should really go away and get replaced by the error. Or
it should at least get to a point and say "the system is stuck; please
reboot with console messages to see why".
Anyway, the second and more pressing problem is that the system wants me
to boot into failsafe mode, but there's no failsafe GRUB option in
OpenSolaris. So is there documentation on the correct grub menu edits
to do a failsafe boot, or is this just not available at all?
Or, given that the reason for the error is that I installed the SMB
packages and did not cleanly update the archive because of the crash
(shame on me, I guess), is the failsafe actually the wrong thing to do,
given that I want the bootarchive to include the smb drivers? Is it
likely to be better to accept the single user boot with mismatched
archive, and just say "bootadm update-archive" and then reboot?
Hugh.
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