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Re: bootadm hangs after moving the boot disk between laptops: msg#00049

Subject: Re: bootadm hangs after moving the boot disk between laptops
> However, after booting into safemode and mounting /a
> read+write I issue the command:
> 
> bootadm update-archive -R /a
> 
> And after the output:  updating /a/platform/i86pc/boot_archive...this may 
> take a minute
> 
> The command just sleeps forever 

Maybe it's running out of free memory; and you can work around that problem
by adding some swap space, e.g. by adding the swap slice from the HDD with
"swap -a /dev/dsk/c...s1" ?
 
 
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