Solaris

Recently had a SAN issue which somehow resulted in my repository.db getting corrupted. I tried using the restore_repository script as suggested by the OS. This did not work due to / being in read only. Per instructions I ran /lib/svc/method/fs-root. This seemed to work. Now on to /lib/svc/method/fs-usr. This did not work and caused a panic/reboot. I cannot do anything until / is out of read only. I tried killing svc.startd, but that didn't work as another svc.startd processes immediately started.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I haven't had much luck and I'm in a bind.

Thanks much!

Boot to failsafe and run restore_repository from there.

Sounds easy enough, but what is the command to boot to failsafe? I've never heard/done that before.
Thanks again

Okay, I did some additional digging and found the/a failsafe boot command (reboot -- -F failsafe). After this boot I ran the restore_repository script and again / was in read only. I ran the scripts as instructed without a panic this time and the restore_repository script still wouldn't run due to / in read only. Here's a short screen shot. Ideas?
# /lib/svc/method/fs-root
# /lib/svc/method/fs-usr
# /lib/svc/bin/restore_repository

See http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-MY for more information on the use of
this script to restore backup copies of the smf(5) repository.

If there are any problems which need human intervention, this script will
give instructions and then exit back to your shell.

Note that upon full completion of this script, the system will be rebooted
using reboot(1M), which will interrupt any active services.

The / filesystem is mounted read-only.

This must be rectified before /lib/svc/bin/restore_repository can continue.

If / or /usr are on SVM (md(7d)) partitions, first run
/lib/svc/method/svc-metainit

To properly mount / and /usr, run:
/lib/svc/method/fs-root
then
/lib/svc/method/fs-usr

After those have completed successfully, re-run:
/lib/svc/bin/restore_repository

to continue.

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To Recove corrupted repository, follow the steps below -
(1) Boot the machine in single user ( failsafe ) mode.
(2) Mount the root disk r/w on /a.
(3) Run the command -
# /a/lib/svc/bin/restore_repository -r /a
(4) Reboot the machine.