[indiana-discuss] Build 107 in VirtualBox: Boot Failed

[Alan Coopersmith]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>> 1) Are there any simple procedures to check for error
>> log output in the event of bugs as I described?
> 
> Suppose build 107 is in your boot environment (BE) "opensolaris-2", which you have failed to boot into, and you are now booting into build 106, which has been installed as BE opensolaris-1 .
> 
> To look at what caused the boot failure, you can do the following procedure;
> 
> pfexec beadm mount opensolaris-2 /a
> cd /a/var/log
> cat Xorg.0.log
> 
> and cat Xorg.0.log.old

Oh, is that what you mean by boot failure?   I always assume "boot failure"
means the kernel failed long before you get to X - if X fails, you should be
able to get a console prompt, though I suppose the new "happy face boot" hides
that unless you turn it off in grub.

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