That was an interesting link. I wonder if these steps really are
necessary. It sure doesn't hurt to make a backup copy of
/etc/path_to_inst but creating an empty "reconfigure" file at the root
seems to be enough.
To describe the instructions in the "bug-report" in words:
(preparatory steps)
1. Boot using OSOL/OI LiveCD
2. Locate and mount the rpool of the system (zpool import -f rpool)
3. Locate and mount all the other pools as well (zpool import -f
<otherpools> - found using zpool list)
4. Locate and mount the boot environment into a suitable subdir under
root (beadm list; beadm mount opensolaris-n /subdir)
5. Move the path_to_inst and create a new empty one (mv
/subdir/etc/path_to_inst <another path>; touch /subdir/etc/path_to_inst)
(the actual modification procedure)
6. Clean and rebuild the device tree (devfsadm -C -r /subdir)
7. Clean and rebuild the device tree for disks only (devfsadm -c disk -r
/subdir) - is this really necessary??? Isn't that done in step 6 already?
8. Copy the actual zfs cache to the rpool (cp /etc/zfs/zpool.cache
/subdir/etc/zfs/zpool.cache)
9. Force a reconfiguration upon next boot (touch /subdir/reconfigure) -
pretty much as suggested by Tim Bell on this mailing list
10. Recreate the boot-archive (bootadm update-archive -R /subdir)
11: Run cd /; sync; sync; sync; - what's this for, and why run "sync"
THREE times?
12. VERY IMPORTANT STEP!!: Unmount the "opensolaris-n" boot environment
using the beadm command (beadm unmount opensolaris-n)
(reboot)
13. Reboot using e.g. init 6 and on next boot select in LiveCD grub menu
"boot from hard drive" - Wouldn't it be easier to just remove the LiveCD
before reboot?
I'm not sure why all these steps would be necessary as they should be
taken care of automatically when forcing a "reconfigure" in first place.
Thanks for your post!
Robin.
On 2011-09-10 19:50, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
Please have a look at
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.solarisx86/35322
I had the same problem and the process described in
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5785
solved my problem.
A.S.
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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece
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