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Old 11-21-2016
Solaris stuck during boot after reconfigure boot

Hello,

I have a problem with my machine that won't boot properly.

The story is that I installed a software called apcupsd, which is a control application for my APC battery UPS. I have used version 3.14.10 earlier, but as part of restoring my previously crashed os harddrive I wanted to install it again and this time took the latest version 3.14.14.
Anyway, after compile, make and make install the installation script instructed that I should do a reconfigure boot using reboot -- -r before starting it for the first time.
(I should add that the ups has been connected with a USB cable since a few weeks back I just haven't installed the software up until now.)

Without perhaps fully understanding what a reconfigure boot entails, I happily entered reboot -- -r and the computer started shutting down and the ssh connection got lost as part of it shutting down.
As it is a headless server I could at the time not really see what was happening, but when I could not contact the machine 10 minutes later I got worried and connected a monitor to it. It had froze with just a text line with sunos etc. with a non blinking cursor. So I waited a little while and then powercycled the machine. After that it booted past grub to the Oracle/Solaris splash screen with the spinning circle and was stuck there for a few hours. With the circle still spinning I figured that it had got stuck on something and that another powercycle would make it leave reconfiguring and boot as normal.
Again it got past grub to the spinning circle and there it has been standing overnight and the whole day today.

I am really lost and need some help on where to begin resolving this. Can I make it boot normally some how or what can I do?

Last edited by Zorken; 11-21-2016 at 01:38 PM.. Reason: Clearing up after posting from mobile phone
 
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