[indiana-discuss] How to boot in failsafe mode?

[Sanjay Nadkarni]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> So I need to either boot in failsafe mode,
You could boot it into single user by adding a -s  in grub menu i.e.
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix  -s

-Sanjay

>>  or booting using the liveCD I
>> need to mount the Ultra 40 disk...
>> But from the live CD, I do not find a way to mount the hardrive... with
>> the usual
>> mount /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0  /tmp/mnt
>>
>> How do I mount this drive from the LiveCD boot?
>>     
>
> >From the Live CD, you should be able to access the already installed
> ZFS pool by typing
>
>  	$ pfexec zpool import -f zpl_slim
>  	$ mkdir /tmp/a
>  	$ pfexec zfs set mountpoint=/tmp/a zpl_slim/root
>
>  	(for Preview 1)
>
> or
>
>  	$ pfexec zpool import -f rpool
>  	$ mkdir /tmp/a
>  	$ pfexec zfs set mountpoint=/tmp/a rpool/ROOT/preview2
>
>  	(for the test image)
>
> dsc
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