[SunHELP] solaris rescue

[ed at the7thbeer.com]

That's perplexing.  I've made DUMB moves on /usr before (i.e. stripped
libc.so badly) and always was able to boot off CDROM.  Maybe you're
giving the wrong command, as I'd usually just go with "boot cdrom", get
in, fix /usr, and reboot into a much happier box.  

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Austad, Jay wrote:

> Ok, I made a big mistake.  I moved my /usr directory to a different
> partition, and was going to ln -s /export/home/usr /usr.  Except, now that
> /usr isn't there, it's hosed.  Booting with boot -s cdrom doesn't work
> either since it's trying to use my filesystem on disk, I don't have a shell.
> And even if I did, all commands look for /usr/lib/ld.so.1.  
> 
> Is there a cd somewhere I can boot that will give me a full rescue mode with
> it's own filesystem?  Then I can just mount my partitions and perform the
> actions I need to make /usr appear normally.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jay
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