On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Dave Miner <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean Liu wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Since my SATA controller is not supported by OpenSolaris, I downloaded the >> usb image from genunix and copied to a USB stick, then used the stick to >> install it to a Western Digital USB disk partition. (I installed opensolaris >> 2008.5 to the partition on a dell laptop before and it worked fine BTW) >> >> 1. After the installation, the disk would not boot at all (nothing shows on >> the screen) >> 2. I booted up the stick and installed grub to the disk (with -m option), >> after reboot the screen shows "GRUB" then stops, there is no menu at all. >> 3. After reading this message >> https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=311082 , I did >> following: >> a. zero'ed out the whole partition (s2) with "dd" >> b. reinstalled opensolaris 2008.11 >> 4. After reboot, nothing shows on screen again >> 5. Booted into stick, downloaded the grub binary attachment, installed the >> grub ( with -m ), reboot, same sympton as step 2. (Only GRUB on screen, >> nothing else) >> > ... >> >> Any ideas why it can't boot? Any help is appreciated. >> > > Take a look at bug 4755: > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4755 > > which has some additional possible workarounds. >
I run into a similar problem. I installed 0811 into a USB disk, and run the workaround mentioned in http://blogs.sun.com/blogfinger/entry/installing_opensolaris_2008_11_on After reboot, I even can't see the grub screen, there is only a cursor keep ticking. I tried to boot from livecd and installgrub of the both stage1 and stage2 files in the CD again. I also tried to updategrub after import the rpool. But all my effort took no effect. I still can't see the grub screen. Any suggestions are really appreciated! Thanks, -Aubrey _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
