[ug-bosug] System Rescue

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:34 AM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote:
> Just needed some help, in case somebody can guide me. I had a fully
> functional SXDE running in a multiboot laptop. This laptop has an Intel
> High Definition Audio, for which there  is support only in OSS ver 4 and
> beyond. I did a pkgadd of the binary from opensound currently marked
> as stable, and did an osstest immediately after installation. I did get
> sound from the speakers. I was quite happy with the output in terms
> of quality.
>
> I rebooted the system (as recommended), and Lo ! I started getting
> error messages on the re-boot. Scrolled past too fast to appreciate
> the details. It went on to the gdm bootup process and I got the log-in
> screen. I have only two users on the box, self and root, and I cannot
> log-in as either. After entering authentications details it recurses back
> to the login screen. Unlike linux, I cannot go to a console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn,
> and investigate. Stuck ! I cannot do a normal shutdown, only power down !

   You should be able to do a normal shutdown just by pressing the
   power button once. Solaris will detect that and do a graceful shutdown.

>
> I could boot into the "failsafe" option, but then, that leads me to a
> root prompt, with the full system mounted at /a. I cannot replicate
> the error which is causing the boot failure. Probably this is some
> kind of IRQ conflict (I cannot imagine anything else which can go
> wrong after OSS install).
>
> How do I proceed from here ?

   You need to boot into Single-user mode. in GRUB screen select the
   boot entry and press 'e'. Now select the "kernel ..." line, scroll to the
   end and add ' -s'. Press ENTER and 'b' to boot.

   You will get down to your familiar single-user console login prompt.
   You can also see what errors are being spewed on the screen.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> Bish
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