As part of a my Solaris 10 installation I needed to install a device driver to recognise my disk controller to access my hard disk. As an experiment one day I booted into Solaris Safe Mode but found that I could not access my hard disk as the disk controller was not detected and therefore no disks were found.
Assuming that the future release of the OpenSolaris LiveCD will allow the user to install a device driver (like Solaris after the grub boot during the initial stages of the install). Are the device drivers incorporated into the Normal Boot and Safe Mode environments? If the device drivers are not added to the Safe Mode environment, will there be a provision to be able to install drivers temporarily in order to access and mount drives? If the drivers are incorporated into the Safe Mode Environment and you update with a newer device driver which replaces the good driver with a bad driver. Will it be possible to remove the newer driver and add the old device driver to the Safe Mode environment in order to access the disk controller and drive then replace the newer driver installed on the drive? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
