Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I did what everyone else is suggesting to go from b90 to B91.  But I
> can't get grub to default to booting the new BE, because (I think) beadm
> wont allow me to activate it.  I am now booted into it fine by selecting
> it manually from grub, however...
>
> 12 ]beadm list
>
> BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space 
> Name                 reboot               Used 
> ----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
> opensolaris-4 no     yes       -          4.37G
> opensolaris-5 yes    no        /          796.43M
>
>
> 13 ]more /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst     (after having edited it)
> splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> timeout 10
> default 1
> title Windows
>       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>       chainloader +1
> #============ End of LIBBE entry =============
> #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
> title Solaris 2008.11 snv_91 X86
> findroot (pool_rpool,1,a)
> kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
> module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
> #---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
> title opensolaris-5
> bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-5
> kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
> module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
> #============ End of LIBBE entry =============
>
> But:
>
> 14 ]beadm activate opensolaris-5
> beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-5
>
> 16 ]/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub 
> Creating GRUB menu in /
> bootadm: biosdev command failed for disk: /dev/dsk/c5d0s0.
> bootadm: is_bootdisk(): cannot determine BIOS disk ID 'hd?' for
> disk: /dev/dsk/c5d0s0
> bootadm: get_grubroot(): cannot get (hd?,?,?) for menu. menu not on
> bootdisk: /dev/rdsk/c5d0s0
> Installing grub on /dev/rdsk/c5d0s0
> stage1 written to partition 1 sector 0 (abs 40969152)
> stage2 written to partition 1, 265 sectors starting at 50 (abs 40969202)
>
> And when I boot, I get snv_90 - i.e. opensolaris-4.
>
> So, what have I fubar'd?
>
> Many thanks,
> Mark.
>
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Same thing happened to me when upgrading from SXCE B90 - B91 using 
LiveUpgrade.  My grub.conf had an extra Windows entry which I removed, 
but everything else was stock and I was able to create a be and upgrade 
the instance (I was using ZFS Root on SXCE) then ran luactivate snv_91 
and on reboot B91 did not show up on menu, it booted B90.  When I tried 
using bootfs to specifically boot the B91 ZFS rpool I got kld symbol 
error resulting in a premature failure.  I tried twice.  Will try stock 
B90 without grub.conf modification (I changed the config back adding the 
entry that was, failed) and upgrade to B91.

James
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