Juergen Keil wrote:
2009/5/3 Matt Ingenthron <[email protected]>:
Matt Ingenthron wrote:
Jürgen Keil wrote:
1) Grub seems broken after the update. The system boots to a "grub>"
prompt. Feeding it the equivalent of what is in the menu.lst it will boot,
but after that boot invoking installgrub did not help with subsequent
reboots. The menu.lst is correct. The most recent thing I've tried is
doing a beadm activate old/new... we'll see if that fixes it. This is
somewhat concerning to me, as it would leave a lot of users stuck.
Did you perhaps set compression = gzip for the rpool filesystem?
No. Also, it still has that behavior after using beadm to activate
another BE then going back.
I've backed off to 2008.11 and now done a beadm activate change/change
back. We'll see if that has an effect.
It did not. Other than installgrub and beadm activate, what else should I
be doing from my 2008.11 install to get grub back in working order?
Which grub bits did you install with installgrub? Those from 2008.11?
No, those from 111a. I've not tried again with the ones from 2008.11
Maybe you need to installgrub the newer grub bits from build 111a, to get
the fix for 6774616 "GRUB/ZFS Error 16 (Inconsistent filesystem structure)
due to lack of GANG Block support"
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6774616
I'm intimately familiar with that bug, and I'm not seeing the error 16.
I guess it could be just the menu.lst which is using gang blocks and not
the boot-archive, but that'd be weird.
This assumes the upgrade from 2008.11 to build 111a did not
install the new grub bits, but the menu.lst file was rewritten
and now uses those zfs gang blocks, and the old grub cannot
read the file any more? What kind of error is reported by the
grub console when you try a "cat /boot/grub/menu.lst" ?
No error. I see the file on the screen. This is, of course, after I've
done the findroot.
As I said earlier, the menu.lst appears correct and typing in the pertinent
lines at the "grub>" prompt will allow the system to boot.
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