I am having a minor annoyance with my 111a build of 2009.06 Solaris.
The short version: How do I turn off the boot-archive check on boot-up?
The long version:
I am doing driver development and a couple of times a day I crash my system.
I do not work close to my development system, so I have been
successfully using the /etc/system "set snooping=1" trick to have my
Solaris system reboot when it hangs itself. When that doesn't work, I
use IPMI to reboot my box remotely.
Every time my Solaris box reboots from a crash, it hangs just in initial
boot-up wanting me to enter System Maintenance Mode and type "svcadm
clear system/boot-archive" because the driver install changed some
archived files. Unfortunately I can't remotely enter system and type
these commands. I have to trundle down to my lab and type these commands.
I have tried to just disable the service by "svcadm disable
system/boot-archive", but upon crash, the OS still requests system
maintenance mode, I have to enter it, re-enable the service, re-clear
the service and then start up.
I have tried to add the "-F failsafe" flag to various lines in the grub
menu list. But everywhere I put it, it either hangs my box or ignores it.
Surely there is an easy way to disable this. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.
-Adam
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