[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 boot problems

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Tue Feb 4 12:28:34 UTC 2014


My keyboard is very tired and can't spell very well this morning..
Yes,

0 covers 8

On 2014-02-04 12:15, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> ... you mean 0 covers 8, don't you?
>
> Cheers
>   Stefan
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Hans J. Albertsson [hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 11:42
> An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 boot problems
>
> You may have noted that according to this partition table, part 9 covers
> partition 8, the BOOT partition. That's not a good idea for an x86 machine.
>
>
> On 2014-02-04 11:31, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
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