Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris not booting after upgrade to 137 (SWAN)

2010-04-27 Thread Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram
Pavan, Thanks for assistance. The Grub entry 'root (hd0,2) was indeed working before my upgrade to 137. When I specify 'root (hd0,1)', even with chainloader +1, I get 'Invalid system disk' error (something similar) The last 10 characters of /dev/sda2 are not '*SWAP*' s...@alcapone-3:~$ sud

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris not booting after upgrade to 137 (SWAN)

2010-04-27 Thread Farid Hajji
> I think GRUB starts counting the partitions from 0. Is that still true for GRUB2? IIRC, they changed the numbering of partitions (but not disks!) to be 1-based now. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris not booting after upgrade to 137 (SWAN)

2010-04-27 Thread pavan chandrashekar
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: Pavan, Here is the fdisk -l output. OpenSolaris partition is the active partition. hmmm... Then, your grub entry should really be: -- root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 boot -- and not: root (hd0,2) I think GRUB starts counting th

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris not booting after upgrade to 137 (SWAN)

2010-04-27 Thread Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram
Pavan, Here is the fdisk -l output. OpenSolaris partition is the active partition. s...@alcapone-3:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 25005600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30400 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris not booting after upgrade to 137 (SWAN)

2010-04-27 Thread pavan chandrashekar
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: I have been switching between OpenSolaris and Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx). I had installed OpenSolaris first and then Ubuntu. So, Ubuntu's Grub2 became my boot manager. It was working fine, till I did a upgrade to OpenSolaris build 137 (internal bits). A reboot from Op

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris not booting after upgrade to 137 (SWAN)

2010-04-27 Thread Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram
I have been switching between OpenSolaris and Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx). I had installed OpenSolaris first and then Ubuntu. So, Ubuntu's Grub2 became my boot manager. It was working fine, till I did a upgrade to OpenSolaris build 137 (internal bits). A reboot from OpenSolaris worked. But, after a hard