[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

[GUY WOOLLEY]

Thanks Matt - you've put your finger on the problem. I have no /a/boot/grub ! 

I'd noticed that the live USB image has /boot/grub with the entries you identify. I wasn't sure what to make of that. 

I don't really get your line

"exchanging PATH for the mount path to what was the active boot environment, not just the root of the pool."

what was the active boot environment ? How do I discover that ?

Cheers

Guy





--- On Wed, 23/3/11, Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Date: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011, 9:58

On my system, I see:

matt at vault:/opensolaris/boot/grub$ ls /rpool/boot/grub/
bootsign       capability     menu.lst       splash.xpm.gz

and 

matt at vault:/opensolaris/boot/grub$ ls /boot/grub/
bin                e2fs_stage1_5      install_menu       menu.lst           pxegrub            stage1             ufs_stage1_5       xfs_stage1_5
capability         fat_stage1_5       iso9660_stage1_5   minix_stage1_5     reiserfs_stage1_5  stage2             ufs2_stage1_5      zfs_stage1_5
default            ffs_stage1_5       jfs_stage1_5       nbgrub             splash.xpm.gz      stage2_eltorito    vstafs_stage1_5

There's definitely more files in /boot/grub in the active boot environment than there is in /rpool/boot/grub.

Perhaps you can boot off the live disc, and

# installgrub PATH/boot/grub/stage1 PATH/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0

exchanging PATH for the mount path to what was the active boot environment, not just the root of the pool.

I checked on my machine if I `beadm mount be_name mount_point` then in `/mount_point/boot/grub/' I see the full list of boot files.

The only thing I'm not sure about is how `beadm mount` goes at mounting boot environments from another pool.


Hope that helps somewhat,

Matt




On 23/03/2011, at 6:50 AM, GUY WOOLLEY wrote:

> Since last October I've had OI 147/148 running on a new home PC. A while ago I attempted to mirror it. All seemed good though I didn't fully check that the mirror booted (silly me etc. - this is a home PC). Then the worst happened and the new drive where OI was installed failed. So I'm left with the drive carrying the mirror that doesn't boot (currently the only drive in the machine). Is this recoverable - or is it goodbye to OI ?
> 
> Some specifics:
> 
> I can boot from the live USB image and inspect my original OI using 
> 
> zpool import -f -R /a rpool
> 
> and mount 0i_148-2 (my last instance of OI) at /a using beadm mount
> 
> If I try
> 
> ls /a/rpool/boot/grub
> 
> I find
> 
> bootsign capability menu.lst splash.xpm.gz
> 
> and 
> 
> ls /bootsign shows a file pool_rpool.
> 
> If I unmount 0i_148-2 and reboot, Grub tries to start, but I get
> 
> "booting '0i_148-2'
> 
> findroot (pool_rpool,1,a)
> 
> Error 15: File not found   Press any key to continue"
> 
> which takes me to the grub editor.
> 
> Changing values for "1" and "a" (to anything else) is of no consequence, nor is 
> 
> deleting them to use simply "findroot (pool_rpool)".
> 
> Any suggestions as to how to fix this, or indeed advice that it can't be fixed much appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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