I haven't yet received any help on this, but I've made some progress. After looking at how repsitory.db is built in Solaris:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/svc/seed/Makefile I added this to my ramdisk building process: ROOT=/home/mgoff/svn/ramdisk SVCCFG=$ROOT/usr/sbin/svccfg CONFIGD=$ROOT/lib/svc/bin/svc.configd DTD=$ROOT/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1 MANIFEST=$ROOT/var/svc/manifest/application/honeycomb-net-filesystem.xml cd $ROOT REPOSITORY=$ROOT/etc/svc/repository.db SVCCFG_DTD=$DTD \ SVCCFG_REPOSITORY=$REPOSITORY \ SVCCFG_CONFIGD_PATH=$CONFIGD \ SVCCFG_CHECKHASH=1 \ PKG_INSTALL_ROOT=$ROOT \ $SVCCFG import $MANIFEST This results in my service running along filsystem/minimal at boot time, but the dependency is not enforced, which causes errors. The interesting thing is that the dependency is present in /etc/svc/repository.db: NODE hcb101 ~ $ svccfg -s filesystem/minimal listprop usr dependency usr/entities fmri svc:/system/filesystem/usr usr/grouping astring require_all usr/restart_on astring none usr/type astring service devices dependency devices/entities fmri svc:/system/device/local devices/grouping astring require_all devices/restart_on astring none devices/type astring service honeycomb_filesystem_minimal dependency honeycomb_filesystem_minimal/entities fmri svc:/application/honeycomb-net-filesystem honeycomb_filesystem_minimal/external boolean true honeycomb_filesystem_minimal/grouping astring require_all honeycomb_filesystem_minimal/restart_on astring none honeycomb_filesystem_minimal/type astring service general framework general/entity_stability astring Unstable general/single_instance boolean true startd framework startd/duration astring transient start method start/exec astring /lib/svc/method/fs-minimal start/timeout_seconds count 0 start/type astring method stop method stop/exec astring :true stop/timeout_seconds count 0 stop/type astring method tm_common_name template tm_common_name/C ustring "minimal file system mounts" and the service is running, but the dependency is NOT present in the runtime config: NODE hcb101 ~ $ svcs -d filesystem/minimal STATE STIME FMRI online 12:20:43 svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default online 12:20:48 svc:/system/device/local:default NODE hcb101 ~ $ svcs -l filesystem/minimal fmri svc:/system/filesystem/minimal:default name minimal file system mounts enabled true state maintenance next_state none state_time Mon Apr 23 12:20:49 2007 alt_logfile /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-minimal:default.log restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default dependency require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/usr (online) dependency require_all/none svc:/system/device/local (online) I would expect it to be in the runtime config since it's in the repository. What can I do to fix this discrepancy during ramdisk build time? I know how to fix it after booting from the ramdisk and the error has occurred, but the updates will not be saved to the ramdisk (part of our cluster node design), and therefore the changes have to be made during ramdisk build time. thanks, Mike This message posted from opensolaris.org