Thursday, April 24, 2008

Solaris reboot problem

Added a new slice in solaris, edited the vfstab file to make it permanent.Finally gave "reboot" command to check if everything is fine.
And now the worst happened..the server shutdown but it is not coming up!!On deeper analysis found that there was a typo in vfstab file.Now the problem is how to fix the vfstab file since server is down...
Here is the solution...
-The reboot command automatically starts the server in single user mode(i.e only at console)
specify the root password there for system administration.(do not press ctrl D for normal operations)
-go to /etc/vfstab file.Just keep its backup once again.
-edit the vfstab file and give a reboot command
Everything works fine now.Cheers!

1 comment:

Saurabh Sawant said...

Anmol, what do you mean by
"The reboot command automatically starts the server in single user mode(i.e only at console)"

what is single user mode or only console? please elaborate.