[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot Environments: invalid hash at boot?

[Toomas Soome]

> On 5. Aug 2025, at 17:20, Nick <atod101101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone encountered an "invalid hash" error message using boot
> environments recently?  I installed OI using 20250606-text and noticed
> this after reboots.  I was able to get back in using a BE I created
> myself, but didn't activate.
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It can happen by different reasons, memory corruption, hash file not getting updated along with boot_archive itself etc. if that happens, you *can* try to disable loading boot archive hash:

press esc while in loader boot menu to get to OK prompt

this will list information about modules:
ok show-module-options

this will disable loading boot_archive.hash:
ok disable-module boot_archive.hash

If the archive is in fact all ok, you should see the good boot (and then run bootadm update-archive -f). Having good boot does not necessarily mean the archive is good, because the “bad spot” may be with some unused file.

rgds,
toomas