[OmniOS-discuss] Boot failure

[Theo Schlossnagle]

Distribution level, though upstream could provide some basics.

Patches welcome on that! I think having a failsafe built-in would be super.


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> On 6/12/2013 7:05 AM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
>
>> You could try booting Firefly and figuring out what's wrong with the host:
>>
>> http://alexeremin.blogspot.**com/2013/05/firefly-failsafe-**
>> image-for-illumos.html<http://alexeremin.blogspot.com/2013/05/firefly-failsafe-image-for-illumos.html>
>>
>
> Cool; I'll have to make a note of that, that could be useful in the future.
>
> Have there been any thoughts on restoring the failsafe boot option in grub
> that Solaris has and be able to do a recovery boot without needing other
> media (and one that uses the same versions as you currently have installed,
> rather than a third party ISO that might not match your system)?
> Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the methodology, but it seems
> you'd just have to generate the equivalent of /boot/x86.miniroot-safe for
> omnios? Would that be a distribution level thing, or an upstream illumos
> thing?
>
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