[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[John D Groenveld]

In message <CMM.0.95.0.1619226358.beebe at gamma.math.utah.edu>, "Nelson H. F. Beebe" writes:
>in the Solaris family.  We tried to find a way to get past the boot
>failure on CentOS 7.9.2009, which I reported yesterday said
>
>    Loading unix...
>    Loading /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive...
>    ZFS: i/o error - all block copies available
>    ...
>    No rootfs module provided, aborting
>
>That happens early in the boot process, well before there is any
>chance to try to revert to an earlier boot environment.  Despite Web

That is after the boot loader menu.
The second page of loader includes an option to boot from alt BEs.

John
groenveld at acm.org