My son (15 years old) has installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on disk on
his system and everything was OK until he made a newbie mistake and
edited the /etc/vfstab file incorrectly, that now prevents him from
booting. (Think he had done too much Linux...)
It just hangs on the splash screen.
My idea was to try to do a live cd boot, import the rpool on the disk,
mount my ZFS root filesystem somewhere, and then edit the
misconfigured vfstab, save it and reboot from disk.
Here's the commands he tried after some ideas from me was...
1. zpool import
Shows the rpool with a long id number
2. zpool import -f long id number xpool
3. mkdir /b
4. zfs set mountpoint=/b xpool/ROOT/opensolaris
5. zfs mount xpool/ROOT/opensolaris
6. cat /b/etc/vfstab
But he can't see the edits that he made.
So, how do he get the real file mounted?
He made a _LOT_ of additions and upgrades after the initial install
and do really want to recover...
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