SRX

I did an upgrade on my SRX and purposely left the old image on the disk - just in case. So now, things look like they are working okay and I was going to snapshot over the old image. Before I do, I have a couple of files that are on there that I need to copy of so I figured I could just reboot and interrupt the boot and tell it to boot from the backup partition but it keeps booting into the updated partition and not the old one.

root@GreatGazoo> show system snapshot media internal
Information for snapshot on       internal (/dev/da0s1a) (backup)
Creation date: Jan 7 06:36:38 2014
JUNOS version on snapshot:
  junos  : 11.4R6.6-domestic
Information for snapshot on       internal (/dev/da0s2a) (primary)
Creation date: Sep 22 14:04:54 2017
JUNOS version on snapshot:
  junos  : 12.1X46-D65.4-domestic

Interrupting the boot and changing the boot.current didn't seem to help either:

loader> show
LINES=24
autoboot_delay=2
autoload=n
baudrate=9600
boot.btsq.len=0x00002000
boot.btsq.start=0x003fa000
boot.current=backup
boot.devlist=nand-flash:usb
boot.env.size=0x00002000
boot.env.start=0x003fe000
boot.status=0x2000a
boot.upgrade.loader=0xbfe00000
boot.upgrade.loader.data=0x00200000
boot.upgrade.loader.hdr=0x002fffc0
boot.upgrade.uboot=0xbfc00000
boot.upgrade.uboot.data=0x00000100
boot.upgrade.uboot.hdr=0x00000030
boot.ver=1.7
bootcmd=cp.b 0xbfe00000 0x100000 0x100000; bootelf 0x100000
bootdelay=1
bootfile=/kernel;/kernel.old
comconsole_speed=9600
console=comconsole
currdev=disk0s2

So basically I want to boot to /dev/da0s1a.

Do I need to change the currdev to disk0s1? I've not seen any reference to changing this parameter and figured before I do and brick my device, I'd ask.

Thanks!!!

 request system reboot slice alternate media internal 

Thouhgt I had said in the original post but guess not - command not available:

root@GreatGazoo> request system reboot ?
Possible completions:
  <[Enter]>            Execute this command
  at                   Time at which to perform the operation
  in                   Number of minutes to delay before operation
  media                Boot media for next boot
  message              Message to display to all users
  |                    Pipe through a command
root@GreatGazoo> request system reboot sli
                                          ^
syntax error.
root@GreatGazoo> request system reboot slice al
                                             ^
Invalid numeric value: 'al' at 'al'
root@GreatGazoo> request system reboot slice alternate
                                             ^
Invalid numeric value: 'alternate' at 'alternate'
root@GreatGazoo> request system reboot slice alternate
                                             ^
Invalid numeric value: 'alternate' at 'alternate'
root@GreatGazoo> request system reboot slice alternate

Alternatively, you can mount the backup partition as root and grab the files that way.

root@test> show system snapshot media internal 
Information for snapshot on       internal (/dev/da0s1a) (backup)
Creation date: Aug 27 12:13:42 2016
JUNOS version on snapshot:
  junos  : 12.1X46-D55.3-domestic
Information for snapshot on       internal (/dev/da0s2a) (primary)
Creation date: Sep 27 18:48:05 2016
JUNOS version on snapshot:
  junos  : 12.1X46-D55.3-domestic

root@test> start shell 
root@test% mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
root@test% ls /mnt
.snap           dev             kernel.old      root
bin             etc             opt             sbin
boot            junos           packages        usr
cf              kernel          pkg             var
root@test% umount /mnt
root@test% 

Thanks for the suggestion but would that allow me to get to the config and logs as well? I'll have to give that a try. Thanks!!!