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

[ludo]

Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
> 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
Thanks, this works fine.
I am not yet comfortable with the ZFS commands, but it is for sure not 
obvious/user friendly anymore to mount a ZFS hard drive:-(
It seems that you need to know some internal strings like zpl_slim or 
rpool ?
Are they store on the disk itself?
Could we add these command somewhere on the liveCD itself?

Ludo
>
> -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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