Hi Enda / Renaud
Thanks for your comments on this.
I had done initial install with zfs root. And "/var" is separate data
set. Installer is giving this option to create separate dataset for
"/var" only. After successful install, reboot the system in failsafe mode.
In fail safe, "/var" not mounted. Customer wants "/var" need to be
mounted by default. He don't want to run explicit command "zfs mount
xxxx/var" in failsafe.
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-05 32-bit
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Booting to milestone "milestone/single-user:default".
Configuring devices.
Searching for installed OS instances...
Multiple OS instances were found. To check and mount one of them
read-write under /a, select it from the following list. To not mount
any, select 'q'.
1 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 Solaris Express Community
Edition snv_117 X86
2 rpool:15790655211463721210 ROOT/s10x_u8wos_05
Please select a device to be mounted (q for none) [?,??,q]: 2
mounting rpool on /a
Starting shell.
# svcs -a | grep online
online 15:01:46 svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
<----only one service.
#
I agree with Renaud saying that "I think that when you're booting in
failsafe, you're booting off the miniroot which doesn't have all that is
needed to boot in single-user mode. ". Thats why when we look for
online service, only "restarter" service is online. Rest all
disabled/offline. It is not starting any filesystem services.
I feel that "/var" need not be mounted in fail safe. The purpose of
failsafe is only to update the boot-archive. But customer asking us to
mount ""/var" in case of failsafe zfs root.
Thanks
Sreedhar
Enda O'Connor wrote:
> Hi
> So is this zfs root?
>
> as far as I know /var has to be in the root poool under ROOT if using
> zfs root.
>
> Enda
>
> On 08/31/09 13:42, Renaud Manus wrote:
>> Hi Narendra,
>>
>> I think that when you're booting in failsafe, you're booting off the
>> miniroot which doesn't have all that is needed to boot in single-user
>> mode.
>>
>> You're better off booting with milestone = none and then run
>> svcadm enable -rt filesystem/local. I don't recommend using the
>> -s flag in this situation, so you can monitor what the system is
>> doing via the CLI.
>>
>> -- Renaud
>>
>> Narendra Kumar S.S wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a query related to milestone and smf services in
>>> failsafe mode.
>>> I have an s10 system and I have booted to failsafe mode.
>>> When I do 'svcs -a | grep milestone', I see that
>>> milestone-singleuser is offline and none of the milestones are online.
>>> The problem I am working on is related to /var filesystem.
>>> /var is a zfs filesystem and it is on a disk other than root disk.
>>> Now, in failsafe mode, the /var is not mounted.
>>> When I try to do 'svcadm enable -rst filesystem/local', this
>>> never comes out.
>>> I think, this is waiting for some of its dependent services to
>>> come up, which might be dependent on the milestone.
>>>
>>> So, can somebody suggest me how to bring up filesystem/local
>>> while in failsafe, so that /var gets mounted?
>>>
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