Luca Morettoni reported a similar behavior (i.e. a perfectly running
system that drops into grub on reboot) on indiana-discuss. I wonder if
the issue is that installgrub is updating the MBR on one disk. If the
second disk does not have an updated grub menu, that would explain what
you are seeing. If this indeed is the issue, then what is puzzling is
why did the BIOS change the boot order ? Was the BIOS updated and the
values got reset to some default values ?
Lori Alt wrote:
> Seymour Krebs wrote:
>
>> Machine is running x86 snv_94 after recent upgrade from opensolaris 2008.05.
>> ZFS and zpool reported no troubles except suggesting upgrade for from
>> ver.10 to ver.11. seemed like a good idea at the time. system up for
>> several days after that point then took down for some unrelated maintenance.
>>
>> now will not boot the opensol, drops to grub prompt, no menus.
>>
>> zfs was mirrored on two disks c6d0s0 and c7d0. I never noted the GRUB
>> commands for booting and not really familiar with the nomenclature. at
>> this point I am hoping that a burn of SXCE snv_94 will give me access to the
>> zfs pools so I can try "update-grub" but at this point it will be about 9
>> hours to download the .iso and I kinda need to work on data residing in that
>> system
>>
>>
>>
> I'll try to help, but I'm confused by a few things. First, when
> you say that you upgraded from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to snv_94,
> what do you mean? Because I'm not sure how one "upgrades"
> an IPS-based release to the older SVR4 packages-based
> release type.
In the IPS world, one upgrades using the command pkg image-update. pkg
commands link with beadm libraries. rpool is snapshotted, then cloned.
It is mounted on a temporary mountpoint and then the contents are
upgraded. Very similar to live upgrade for zfs.
-Sanjay
> Do you mean that you did an initial install
> using snv_94? If so, did you select a zfs root or a ufs root?
> At what point were you presented with the suggestion
> to upgrade the pool from ver.10 to ver.11?
>
> Also, you write that you are doing a burn of SXCE snv_94,
> but how did you do the "upgrade" (or whatever) to snv_94
> in the first place without a snv_94 install medium?
>
> Lori
>
>> any suggestions
>>
>> thanks,
>> sgk
>>
>>
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