I maintain several opensolaris fileservers remotely. Occasionally, one will fail to boot requiring an on-site visit to fix. It's usually something minor, like a service failing to start following an upgrade or a corrupt boot archive. For example, editing /etc/system or another config file prior to the system losing power or crashing will cause the system to fail to boot on restart as it thinks the boot archive is corrupt. (It is apparently only regenerated during a successful shutdown/reboot).
Is there a way to either force the system to boot to console even if something is awry, or at least provide SSH access to the recovery console? The servers in question don't have IPMI and I'd prefer to avoid having to get an IPKVM for each one. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
