Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Malte Hahlbeck wrote:
Hi,
after the update from 2009.06 to snv_117 succeeded, the new boot
environment is still mounted to tmp (see below) and can not be activated.
When I try to activate it, I got the following error:
$> pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-6
Unable to activate opensolaris-6.
Unknown external error.
First, you'll want to try unmounting it.
Then, try:
BE_PRINT_ERR=true pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-6
I'm seeing a similar problem - pkg image-update from 111b to 117
reported that it was unable to activate the new be, and left it mounted.
I then got:
also% env BE_PRINT_ERR=true pfexec beadm umount opensolaris-117
also% env BE_PRINT_ERR=true pfexec beadm activate opensolaris-117
be_do_installgrub: installgrub failed for device c8t0d0s0.
Unable to activate opensolaris-117.
Unknown external error.
This machine is setup to dual boot, and I recently reinstalled the other
side with Fedora 11, so it installed it's own grub and made it's partition
active - I've listed opensolaris in Fedora's grub to chainload. Is that
blocking the installgrub?
Do you have a mirrored root? If so one side of it may not be set up correctly
for installgrub to work. You can try running installgrub by itself and see what
that gives you but it looks like it's a device configuration problem.
As for the abysmal error reporting when installgrub fails that's bug 6495 which
I hope to have fixed in the near future.
-evan
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