How to undo what you don't know you did?

"White, Bob (CONTR)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.managers
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Okay  I have Solaris 10 on a Sun Ultra 20, that was fully patched on Nov.
4th.  Working fine.

It is time for the monthly maintenance, so I went in and looked at all the
patches that have been released in the last month.  A number of security
patches, and some other things.  I didn't carefully read each one.  I selected
them all with patch admin and let it install.  It came up at the end and said
it needed to reboot.  I shut down my one application that is running on the
box and checked the box for reboot and okay.

The shutdown started, but got to a blank screen and stopped.  I let it sit for
15 minutes in case it was doing something.  I finally had to power down.

No the box is completely hosed.  All sorts of errors on boot up.  Can't find
root password.  Can't load devices.  All sorts of errors.

I can boot to failsafe  but don't know where to go from here.  Any
suggestions?


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