Summary: I'm having trouble finding advice or a documentation of how to get inside and repair and install that cannot be booted.
Details: This is a fairly new install of osol-11 from a recent iso image. Host is winXP using VMware (VirtualBox freezes the OS repeatedly) I'd been running the new install for a few days and attempted to install the vmware tools. When I got to the part where you run the installation script I apparently either overwrote the config file for starting X or installed a new one with a different name `/etc/X11/xorg.conf'. When that question came up it asked me if I wanted to install the conf file.. I said yes thinking I would be given a chance to say where. Instead the vmware tool install routine apparently installed something and finished.. On reboot, after the grub prompt the gui desktop never comes up. Selecting the `text' boot option seemed to allow me to login at a console but then it goes on to starting the xserver with no action on my part... and that never completes. It appears I am effectively locked out. I can edit the grub prompt but really could not find by googling, what (exactly) to do there. A screen shot of the grub offerings after typing `e' to edit, here: http://home.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi I haven't tried them all but the ones I have tried led to a console prompt but then after logging in as my user... in a minute or so it goes on trying for the gui login I guess... and then all I see is black. No further action seems possible I do have the iso but not really sure how to gain entry with it either. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
