[OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub

[Colin Ellis]

Is your bios definitely set up to boot from that disk?  It's possible that
your linux grub is actually on the other drive.


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Axelle Apvrille
<axelle_apvrille at yahoo.fr>wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> >I don't think I've ever used installgrub -m flag... maybe it is what
> >blocks you from installing to cXtYp0? Does installation to the disk
> >itself (cXtY) also fail?
>
> No, that does not work either:
>
> # /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4d0p0
> raw device must be a root slice (not s2)
> Unable to gather device information for /dev/rdsk/c4d0p0
>
> I need to specify s0...
> # /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4d0s0
> stage2 written to partition 1, 277 sectors starting at 50 (abs 61432610)
> stage1 written to partition 1 sector 0 (abs 61432560)
>
> Note that however, I still don't have my grub back after reboot.
>
> # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4d0p0
>
>  Partition   Status    Type          Start   End   Length    %
>       =========   ======    ============  =====   ===   ======   ===
>           1                 IFS: NTFS         0  3823    3824     13
>           2       Active    Solaris2       3824  10198    6375     21
>           3                 Win95 FAT32    10199  16572    6374     21
>           4                 EXT-DOS        16573  30400    13828     45
>
>
> Axelle
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