Hi,
I'm trying to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 to a secondary IDE master
disk, more precisely to /dev/hdc3 (in Linux terms). The first two
partitions of /dev/hda and /dev/hdc are occupied by a Linux RAID-1 file
system, and I don't want to touch those. The installation process goes
through smoothly, but then, after reboot I just get a blank screen with
a blinking cursor. It's possibly to be expected, given that from what I
understand, the installer does not put GRUB into MBR, only the target
partition (however, isn't BIOS supposed to hand off control to the
loader of the "active" primary partition under these circumstances?
apparently it doesn't). The question is how to proceed to get a bootable
system. So far all my attempts to convince GRUB or LILO to hand off
booting to the OpenSolaris boot loader have failed, as described below.
The most basic attempt I thought should work is to put in the LiveCD,
and then in the GRUB which comes up tell it to boot right from the
OpenSolaris partition:
rootnoverify hd(1,2)
chainloader +1
This results in a single high-pitched beep and system freeze.
Another try was to actually give the LiveCD GRUB the proper menu.lst
entry created by the installer:
findroot (pool_rpool,2,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
Same problem, beep and freeze.
I also tried installing the OpenSolaris GRUB into MBR using grubinstall
-m. The only result is that at boot I got the four letters "GRUB"
displayed. After that the system freezes (there is no beep this time).
I've also tried LILO with other=/dev/hdc (after having installed GRUB
into MBR) as well as other=/dev/hdc3, with and without the master-boot
option, pretty much to the same effect (immediate freeze), no meaningful
error messages either.
This all makes me wonder whether my intended setup is perhaps not
supported at all (and deepens my hate for all boot loaders, not just the
grand unified one ;-)). I'd be grateful for any hints on how to properly
diagnose this problem or maybe a report from someone who has managed to
get a similar setup working.
Best regards,
Jan Ploski
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