diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
index 8b1df887..57b49805 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DriverHostActor.cs
@@ -705,8 +705,12 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         foreach (var spec in plan.ToApplyDelta) ApplyChildDelta(spec);
         foreach (var spec in plan.ToSpawn) SpawnChild(spec);
 
+        // Hand the cached blob to the rebuild so it materialises the client-facing address space from
+        // it directly. Passing only the deploymentId would drive a ConfigDb read — unreachable here by
+        // definition — and the rebuild would no-op, leaving OPC UA clients browsing an empty server
+        // while the drivers below poll happily. (Found on the docker-dev live gate.)
         _opcUaPublishActor?.Tell(
-            new ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.OpcUa.OpcUaPublishActor.RebuildAddressSpace(correlation, deploymentId));
+            new ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.OpcUa.OpcUaPublishActor.RebuildAddressSpace(correlation, deploymentId, blob));
 
         PushDesiredSubscriptionsFromArtifact(deploymentId, blob);
     }
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/OpcUa/OpcUaPublishActor.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/OpcUa/OpcUaPublishActor.cs
index c8d9d7d3..f19127ab 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/OpcUa/OpcUaPublishActor.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/OpcUa/OpcUaPublishActor.cs
@@ -73,7 +73,17 @@ public sealed class OpcUaPublishActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     ///     applied config + the SubscribeBulk pass. It is null only for legacy/dev callers, which
     ///     fall back to the latest sealed deployment (lags a not-yet-sealed apply by one revision).
     /// </summary>
-    public sealed record RebuildAddressSpace(CorrelationId Correlation, DeploymentId? DeploymentId = null);
+    /// <param name="Correlation">Correlation id for tracing this rebuild.</param>
+    /// <param name="DeploymentId">The applied deployment whose artifact to materialise, or null for the latest-sealed fallback.</param>
+    /// <param name="Artifact">
+    ///     The artifact bytes already in hand, used INSTEAD of loading them from the ConfigDb. This is
+    ///     what makes boot-from-cache actually serve its address space: on a central-SQL outage the
+    ///     host has the cached blob but <see cref="DeploymentId"/> alone would drive a ConfigDb read
+    ///     that cannot succeed, leaving the rebuild a no-op and clients browsing an empty server. Null
+    ///     on the normal path, where loading from the ConfigDb by id is correct.
+    /// </param>
+    public sealed record RebuildAddressSpace(
+        CorrelationId Correlation, DeploymentId? DeploymentId = null, byte[]? Artifact = null);
 
     /// <summary>Inject driver-discovered nodes (FixedTree) under an equipment at runtime (post-connect).</summary>
     /// <param name="EquipmentRootNodeId">The OPC UA NodeId of the equipment root folder to inject the
@@ -345,13 +355,15 @@ public sealed class OpcUaPublishActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
 
         try
         {
-            // Prefer the artifact of the deployment the host just applied — at apply time it is not
-            // yet Sealed, so LoadLatestArtifact would return the PREVIOUS revision and materialise a
-            // stale composition (variables that don't match the SubscribeBulk refs). Fall back to
-            // latest-sealed only for legacy callers that don't carry a DeploymentId.
-            var artifact = msg.DeploymentId is { } depId
-                ? LoadArtifact(depId)
-                : LoadLatestArtifact();
+            // An in-hand artifact (boot-from-cache) wins: the host already has the cached bytes, and
+            // the ConfigDb read the DeploymentId path would do is exactly what is unreachable during
+            // the outage this exists to survive. Otherwise prefer the artifact of the deployment the
+            // host just applied — at apply time it is not yet Sealed, so LoadLatestArtifact would
+            // return the PREVIOUS revision and materialise a stale composition (variables that don't
+            // match the SubscribeBulk refs). Fall back to latest-sealed only for legacy callers that
+            // carry neither.
+            var artifact = msg.Artifact
+                ?? (msg.DeploymentId is { } depId ? LoadArtifact(depId) : LoadLatestArtifact());
             var composition = _localNode is { } ln
                 ? DeploymentArtifact.ParseComposition(artifact, ln.Value,
                     inconsistency => _log.Warning("OpcUaPublish {Node}: cross-cluster binding — {Message}", ln, inconsistency))
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorBootFromCacheTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorBootFromCacheTests.cs
index 1354a30e..6d7640eb 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorBootFromCacheTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DriverHostActorBootFromCacheTests.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Entities;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Enums;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.DeploymentCache;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Drivers;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.OpcUa;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Harness;
 
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Drivers;
@@ -55,6 +56,30 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActorBootFromCacheTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
         cache.UnkeyedReads.ShouldBe(1);
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void BootFromCache_HandsTheCachedArtifactToTheAddressSpaceRebuild()
+    {
+        // The client-facing address space rebuild must materialise from the CACHED bytes, not from a
+        // ConfigDb read keyed by deployment id — that read is exactly what is unreachable during the
+        // outage boot-from-cache exists to survive. Without the blob, the node logs "running from
+        // cache", spins up its drivers, and still serves OPC UA clients an empty server. (Regression
+        // for the defect the docker-dev live gate caught: 16 nodes on the healthy peer, 1 here.)
+        var blob = EmptyArtifact();
+        var cached = new CachedDeploymentArtifact(
+            DeploymentId.NewId().ToString(), CachedRev.Value, blob, DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.AddHours(-1));
+        var publishProbe = CreateTestProbe();
+
+        Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
+            new ThrowingDbFactory(), TestNode, coordinator: null,
+            localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
+            opcUaPublishActor: publishProbe.Ref,
+            deploymentArtifactCache: new StubArtifactCache(cached)));
+
+        var rebuild = publishProbe.ExpectMsg<OpcUaPublishActor.RebuildAddressSpace>(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
+        rebuild.Artifact.ShouldNotBeNull();
+        rebuild.Artifact.ShouldBe(blob);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void CentralUnreachableAndCacheEmpty_StaysStaleWithNoConfiguration()
     {