Solaris with root on metadevices (SVM) can't boot failsafe
Moin!
I just got a FireX4100 and after having a bit of a problem installing it with dhcp I finally
managed to jumpstart it as our usual sparc boxes with mirrored disks and all packages
needed. However I shot myself in the foot by trying to compile pam_mkhomedir, which
did compile but not run. As it causes a pam error when trying to log in the box is
unusable as nobody can login.
Ok so no problem if I had that with a sparc box I would do a boot -s, fix pam.conf
and reboot again. However there is no such thing as boot -s in x86. Instead you can
boot failsafe. Which doesn't give you access to any metadevice, so you can't mount
the root fs to change pam.conf.
How do I get out of this mess. How can I boot failsafe or via net and still use SVM
metadevices?
So long
-Ralf
