[OmniOS-discuss] System in a strange place

[Paul B. Henson]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 04:44:06PM +0100, Kaspar Schiess wrote:

> One of my test systems running OmniOS is in a strange place - I hope to 
> resurrect it from there. Last Sunday, I've updated it to the latest 
> version of stable OmniOS and shut it down. Then after maintenance, I 
> tried starting it again, hoping that it would come up.
> 
> It did not cleanly. If I boot into ILO, I can see that the system 
> displays a root login prompt, but doesn't let me use the keyboard to log 
> in.

You didn't perchance perform the update into an alternative boot
environment? If you did, you should be able to use grub to select the
previous pre-update boot environment to boot into to see if the updates
caused your problem. If you didn't update into a separate BE, this is an
example of why you should 8-/.

You could potentially use pkg off a boot cd to try and back out the
updates, but exactly how to do that I'm not sure of...