[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

[Lou Picciano]

As a start: Once in grub, edit boot line to 'text mode' and verbose. This will get you a bit down the road toward diagnosis. 

Lou Picciano 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Harry Putnam" <reader at newsguy.com> 
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org 
Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 4:03:34 AM 
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot 

Running OI a9 on HP xw8600 

Following a hard shutdown from power outage; attempted boots produced 
an error message indicating a problem with the onboard battery and 
that the date was way off. 

On booting to bios I discovered the date was on zeros all around. 

AFter resetting the date to its (then current) figures, a new boot 
went on to the point of bringing up the grub screen with possible 
versions to boot, defaulting to the most recent listed. 

That bootup brings up the opening screen of OI boot with the graphic 
of a completion gauge. That is, a white heavy walled long thin oval 
with a heavy white line inside. All on a blue background and with 
ilumos logo visible in lower right corner. 

On previous normal boots, that heavy white line turns red begining at 
the left and progressivly turning red to the right until the OS 
suddenly appears. 

Currently, I see the white line turning red for about the first inch 
and then a sudden reboot takes over. 

In other words, I'm unable to boot my OS beyond the first stages. 

I haven't had this kind of trouble for very long time and have 
forgotten how to perform an emergency boot. 

Further, once I've made an emergency boot I suspect the OS time is 
still completely off and possibly causing the unwanted sudden reboot. 

So a few main things: 

1) How to get booted? Is it just a matter of booting from the old a8 
iso then mounting some parts of the current os enough to chroot in 
and sets the time/date and see if that cures things? 
2) Assuming I get an emergency boot accomplished... what do I need to 
mount to be able to chroot in and set time/date? 

3) Is there a proceedure required for setting time/date on Solaris 
that is different from linux in major ways? 


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