On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:15 AM, James Lever<[email protected]> wrote:
> I upgraded to osol-b121 yesterday but since then it boots to the grub
> bootloader but does not give a menu.
>
> I can manually boot to my old BE by typing in all of the boot parameters
> into grub (same as what is in grub menu.lst).
>
> I deleted the new BE in case it was the culprit, but that didn't fix
> anything.
>
> r...@zeki:~# BE_PRINT_ERR=true beadm list -d -s
> BE/Dataset/Snapshot                       Active Mountpoint Space   Policy
> Created
> -------------------                       ------ ---------- -----   ------
> -------
> osol-b118
>   rpool/ROOT/osol-b118                   N      /          103.91M static
> 2009-08-02 17:22
> osol-b118-yge
>   rpool/ROOT/osol-b118-yge               R      -          5.76G   static
> 2009-08-08 13:13
>   rpool/ROOT/osol-b118-...@install       -      -          1.72G   static
> 2009-08-02 05:21
>   rpool/ROOT/osol-b118-...@osol-b118-yge -      -          111.00M static
> 2009-08-08 13:13
> r...@zeki:~# BE_PRINT_ERR=true beadm activate osol-b118-yge
> set_bootfs: failed to set bootfs property for pool rpool: operation not
> supported on this type of pool
> be_activate: failed to set bootfs pool property for rpool/ROOT/osol-b118-yge
> Unable to activate osol-b118-yge.
> ZFS returned an error.
> r...@zeki:~#
>
> How do I debug this further and get the system back to booting of its own
> accord?
>
> cheers,
> James
>

If I understand correctly, you already delete the b121 BE right?
you can boot the system by b118 liveCD or liveUSB, and try to install the grub
again to see if it can help.

$ pfexec installgrub <-m> /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2
/dev/rdsk/<yourdisk>

Thanks,
-Aubrey
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