[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 boot problems

Stefan Müller-Wilken stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de
Tue Feb 4 10:31:41 UTC 2014 

There is one thing I'm not sure about; when looking at the partition table, what makes me wonder is that partition 0 starts at cylinder 0 while other machines in my collection have it start at cylinder 1. Apart from that, it is tagged as 'unassigned' and not root:


Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 60795 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
  0 unassigned    wm       0 - 60793      931.41GB    (60794/0/0) 1953311220
  1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0
  2     backup    wu       0 - 60794      931.43GB    (60795/0/0) 1953343350
  3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0
  4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0
  5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0
  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0
  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0
  8       boot    wu       0 -     0       15.69MB    (1/0/0)          32130
  9 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)              0

Could that be a problem? Again: it works once after installgrub and then hangs on GRUB for any subsequent try.

Cheers
 Stefan


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Von: Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] [predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 10:55
An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 boot problems

Hi,

since grub is problem, is it possible that rpool mirror is 'damaged'?

zpool status -v rpool

Otherwise, I have no other idea.
Regards.

On 02/ 4/14 10:45 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> Hmmm... I've booted from DVD, switched to command line, mounted rpool and then diff'ed the stage1 and stage2 binaries. They are identical, so that can't be a problem.  But things are getting even weirder. I booted from DVD, then chain-booted into the HD installation, reinstalled boot loader via installgrub and rebooted. The server went into GRUB menu without a problem and did that again as l resetted from GRUB menu.
>
> But getting into GRUB menu works only until I boot through into multi user for the first time. After that, any subsequent boot will end in "GRUB _" or "GRUB loading stage2...".
>
> Huh??!
>
> Cheers
>   Stefan
> ________________________________________
> Von: Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] [predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 08:41
> An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 boot problems
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> see my comment below.
>
> On 02/ 3/14 09:55 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>> Hi Predrag,
>>
>> you mean simply use installgrub from the DVD? Or copy the files 'stage1' and 'stage2'  to my HD's /boot/grub?
>>
>> Cheers
>>    Stefan
>>
> Yes, all from DVD (I had problem with outdated grub structure on USB
> image, check "OI 1.8 /dev: need help (missing feature for read
> 'org.illumos:lz4_compress')" discussion - that was completely another
> problem, but USB image didn't worked).
>
> Regards.
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Predrag Zecevic [predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com]
>> Gesendet: Montag, 3. Februar 2014 21:32
>> An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 boot problems
>>
>> Am 03.02.2014 21:11, schrieb Stefan Müller-Wilken:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I've got a serious booting problem with one of my 151a8 Proliants after switching my root pool mirror with its 2 disksfrom 73GB disks to 1TB disks. Although I've used installgrub to write stage1 and stage2 to each of the two disks using ...
>>>
>>> # installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0
>>> # installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s0
>>>
>>> ... the machine will blank the screen after booting and stop with "GRUB" and a blinking cursor. Using the text installer CD and then using "Boot from harddisk" will work. Anything I can do to bring the machine back to normal?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>    Stefan
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>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> not quiet sure, but I guess you have to:
>> a) boot from DVD (not USB)
>> b) import -f rpool
>> c) use stage1 and stage 2 files from that booted media (not sure if
>> /boot/grub/ is linked properly)
>> d) reboot
>>
>> Just an idea.
>>
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