> So on both Solaris 8 x86 and Solaris 10 x86/AMD64 (s10u5 ) I see a > bootpath device provided to the boot software in some file. Except > with OpenSolaris which does not seem to have such a thing.
OpenSolaris (Solaris Nevada) on an UFS root should continue to use a bootpath property in /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc On snv_96 with an UFS root, I have this: % grep bootpath /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc setprop bootpath /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci1043,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:a > It looks like I need to inform the boot process about what the correct > boot device really is. I *think* that means I need to tweak the boot > envionment with a bootpath device. That *seems* to be possible with > Solaris 10 but not with OpenSolaris. Why isn't this possible with OpenSolaris / Solaris Nevada? Boot using the failsafe grub option, let it mount the hdd under /a, run "format" to find out the physical device path of the hdd, and edit that into /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc Update the boot archive with "bootadm update-archive -R /a". I think there had been some bugs with "bootadm update-archive" in old Nevada releases when an alternate root was specified, but they should all have been fixed by now, in recent Nevada release. > I can tell you > that I can boot with a CDROM and then just look at the PCI device path > to the bootable disk but when I enter that info into the > /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file as a valid bootpath I get the exact same > panic. Hmm, /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc looks wrong. If you mounted the HDD under /mnt (e.g.), you should edit /mnt/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc Note: don't unmount the HDD after making that change. Either run "bootadm update-archive -R /mnt" before unmounting, or use the halt / reboot command, which should automatically update the boot archive on all *mounted* root filesystems. > I can try to edit the vfstab file and that fails also but I > don't really think the boot process has proceeded > that far anyways. Ok, vfstab needs to be fixed, too. Without that change you'll get a failure when the HDD boot tries to remount the root filesystem in read/write mode. You end up with a single user mode prompt and the root filesystem still being mounted in read-only mode. If you do not have a separate /usr filesystem, you can fix this by: - remount root in read/write mode mount -o remount,rw /devices/pysical/path/to/root_fs_device:a / (I think you can also use "uadmin 4 0" to change the read-only root into a read/write mounted root) - mount /tmp, /var/run - devfsadm -v - format (find out the new c?t?d? for the root fs) - edit /etc/vfstab - reboot This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org