[OpenIndiana-discuss] mounting an existing system on a boot image

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 10/09/2018 10:54, Marc Lobelle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> by doing a wrong chmod in /etc (I thought I was in another directory) I made
> /etc/init and thus /sbin/init not executable, so the system does not boot
> anymore even in single user.
>
> Thus I booted a live image from a DVD and I would like to mount my root file
> sustem on this image in order to fix the permissions in /sbin and /usr/sbin
>
> In old solaris versions, as far as I remember there was even a menu entry for this.
>
> But I do not know how to do it now with zfs from the live image. I'm running the
> live image in gui mode.
>
> Could somebody help me with this ?
>

Either 'zpool import -f rpool' or 'beadm mount rpool /a'  should
do that (verify with 'zpool import' or 'beadm list' beforehand).
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