[OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

[Jerry Kemp]

thanks for the quick reply Andrew!!



On 24/01/18 18:49, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana 
>> (pre-Hipster) system.  I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue 
>> switch on the other pools.
>>
>> My yahoo-fu must be off, I've been looking at wiki.openindiana.org and docs.openindiana.org .
>>
>> I'm sure I'm just missing the obvious, but can someone share the details of a failsafe boot for an older, pre-Hipster OpenIndiana 
>> install please?
> 
> At the grub menu, move to the BE you want to boot and type 'e' (for edit).
> Use cursor keys and add "-m milestone=none" to the boot command line options.
> Come out of edit mode (can't remember how off-hand, but it probably tells you on bottom of screen, maybe Esc or Return).
> Type 'b' to boot.
>