Ashwin, For clearing the archive, I should be able to login which is not happening.
I edited the boot option to include -S but still goes thru the same loop! Best Regards, Madhan Kumar Ashwin Bhat wrote: > Did you try > svcadm clear boot-archive > exit 0 > > After booting > bootadm update-archive > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:40 PM, <Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com > <mailto:Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com>> wrote: > > hi, > > I was trying Opensolaris 5.08 (snv_86 rc3). I installed the > system and after boot up, decided to unconfig the system. On > reboot, I encountered boot archive corruption and was trying to > boot into failsafe mode but notice that there is no failsafe > option in the grub menu. > > Unfortunately, the sytem doesn't seem to accept the root password > either and I am stuck in no man's land!!! :-( > > Any tips? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080620/a41f0dbe/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Madhan_Balasubramanian.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 174 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080620/a41f0dbe/attachment.vcf>
