[OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster live CD / recovery options?

[Jason Lawrence]

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I forgot. I remember checking the grub stage* binaries for the 'lz4' string to confirm there was *probably* support, but I didn't think to run installgrub. Oops.

Anyway, I was able to use the 'bloody' release of OmniOS to import the pool, reinstall grub, and get my system bootable again. Thanks for the help and ideas. 

--jason


On Friday, July 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:

> On 2013-07-26 17:17, Jason Lawrence wrote:
> > The warning on http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/LZ4+Compression implies the pool must be imported in order to update grub properly. I thought for sure that stage2 was placed within the filesystem, not in MBR or another fixed location.
> > 
> > I didn't have much luck with the 151a7 live CD, so I'm going to give OmniOS a try. I'm very open to other suggestions or ideas.
> 
> Hmmm... maybe that holds for installation of the GRUB pieces which are
> stored as files on the FS. Those stages which go into fixed sector
> offsets should be FS-agnostic (in fact, they are what mounts the FS
> for GRUB and lets it find the menu, kernel, boot-archive and so on).
> 
> Then again, I wouldn't want to break your system by remote mis-advice :)
> 
> I also implicitly assumed that your updated system did include the
> newer GRUB package (and files) and just did not do installgrub. This
> might have been a false assumption - then you'd need to import the
> pool.
> 
> Let's hope you have better luck with live media of some other illumos
> distro and are able to update GRUB from there...
> 
> //Jim
> 
> 
> 
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