Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: > Hey, > As part of Indiana we are taking a fresh look at safemode boot. > The safemode boot archive in Solaris 10 and Nevada is the miniroot > that is used by install. As a result the size restrictions of the > miniroot dictate the size and contents of the safe mode boot > archive. > > With the live CD approach, we are no longer encumbered by these > restrictions and therefore we want to take this opportunity to > make this archive more useful. > > So, are there tools or utilities that you would like to see when > booted > in safemode ? Are there new features that you would like to see ? > Or any limitations in the existing safemode boot archive that > you would > like to resolve. > > If so please participate in this discussion on > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org.
Hi Sanjay, One tool that I often ask people to provide info with is /usr/X11/bin/scanpci to determine what hardware is present in the system. When they are having driver issues having this available is often far more helpful than prtconf. Mike