From: Charles Gagnon (charlesg@unixrealm.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2006 - 20:44:56 EST
I am on the hunt for information on the boot archive, what it does,
how its managed and so on.
We had a HUGE UPS failure in our office on friday. All the machines
ended-up going black for a split second and powering back up.
Typically a VERY bad scenario for UNIX hardware of any kind.
Usually we only have to deal with running 'fsck' everywhere, but the
X4100 w/ Sol10 installed really didn't enjoy this.
After a few retries at 'fsck -y', I notice they kept coming back to
single-user prompt. It took me a while to notice that the systems
needed:
- Reboot and watch the console actively cause you have 10 secs to
catch the "Failsafe Boot" option... I could NOT figure out how to
force a failsafe reboot from the single-user mode.
- Bring them up on failsafe and mount each mirrored root drive one
at a time on /a, run a 'bootadm update-archive -R /a' on each and
reboot.
All this took me forever so now I want to figure out how to prevent
it.
a) Can I force a failsafe boot without sitting there watching the
machines come up? That's helpful when you try to do multiples.
b) Can this step be prevented somehow? Anything I can change,
reconfigure or fix to save me this step?
Thanks.
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