[OpenIndiana-discuss] help needed: reinstall bootloader

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello!

Something weird happened (per ssh i killed X because of a not responding 
system, i had to power off)
and now the boot loader hangs just before listing the installed drives
"BIOS Drive C:" ...
and therefore not showing the oi boot menu.

Boot From DVD with
#beadm activate openindiana-2 zfs:rpool
#boot
does work (so i am able to send EMails :-)

#zpool status
does list a wrong device name (/dev/sdc5 but the partition is 
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0p1),
so i cannot use #bootadm install-bootloader -Mfv

i tried
#installgrub -m /boot/grub/zfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/stage_2 
/dev/rdsk/ct5t0d0s1
with the effect that i only see a cursor in the left upper edge, so its 
worse than before.

Below are the details.

Any hints are welcome :-)

Stephan


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DETAILS:

root at dell:~# zpool status rpool
   pool: rpool
  state: ONLINE
status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
         still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
         the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not 
support
         the features. See zpool-features(5) for details.
   scan: none requested
config:

         NAME         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         rpool        ONLINE       0     0     0
           /dev/sdc5  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
root at dell:~# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
        0. c5t0d0 <Samsung-SSD 850 EVO 250GB-EMT01B6Q cyl 36593 alt 2 hd 
224 sec 56>
           /pci at 0,0/pci1028,24f at 1f,2/disk at 0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^C
root at dell:~# bootadm install-bootloader -Mfv
be_do_installboot: device /dev/sdc5
be_do_installboot: install failed for device /dev/sdc5.
   Command: "/usr/sbin/installboot -F -m -f //boot/pmbr 
//boot/gptzfsboot /dev/sdc5/r"
   Errors:
installing loader to whole disk device is not supported
open: No such file or directory
Unable to open device /dev/sdc5/r
be_run_cmd: command terminated with error status: 1