Hi Ananth, Sure. If you think its a bug I'm reporting it now to zfs-discuss.
Thanks for the grok idea. I think directly inspecting the code is a much better way (though a much bolder way, since I don't know much about opensolaris code) to solve the problem in the future :) Regards. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Ananth Shrinivas <ananth at google.com> wrote: >> >> It worked. It did find the pools on the disk and I was able to mount >> rpool the way you've suggested. >> >> The only problem being that scrub didn't fix the error and now I have >> had to reinstall opensolaris. Oh well, now it has given me a chance to >> come back to SXCE. Failsafe is there atleast. > > This likely indicates a bug in the GRUB implementation of fsys_zfs.c. You > might want to raise a bug on bugs.opensolaris.org or let zfs-discuss know. > > Ananth > > >> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> wrote: >> >> (sorry for the cross-posting) >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> I am running OpenSolaris 2008.05. I did a hard shutdown of my laptop, >> >>>> I had to since Sun Studio had gone into an infinite loop (some bug). >> >>>> >> >>>> After restart, Grub showed up fine, as soon as I press enter for >> >>>> OpenSolaris 2008.05's grub menu entry, it shows an error - >> >>>> "Inconsistent Filesystem Structure". >> >>>> >> >>>> And It doesn't show any shell ! >> >>>> >> >>>> Does anyone know how to fix this? I atleast need a shell prompt to be >> >>>> able to do anything with it. Other way around could possible be >> >>>> booting from the LiveCD and doing something? >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> Boot from the LiveCD, and see if it mounts the file systems on the >> >>> laptop. Since you're using 2008.5, the filesystem would be zfs, and >> >>> you should be able to fix this. >> >>> >> >> >> >> I booted from the Live CD. It doesn't automatically mount the solaris >> >> partition. >> >> >> >> If I do it manually like so: >> >> >> >> angad at opensolaris:/mnt# mount -F zfs /dev/dsk/c5d0p1 /mnt/sol >> >> >> >> It gives error: >> >> cannot open '/dev/dsk/c5d0p1': invalid dataset name >> >> >> >> What is the proper way of mounting the opensolaris 2008.05 partition >> >> from another one? >> > >> > Mounting ZFS is different from other mounting FS-es. >> > Run zpool import without arguments. It will print existing pool >> > names. for OpenSolaris 2008.05 it will be "rpool". >> > >> > Now run >> > zpool import -R /mnt -f rpool >> > >> > The pool on harddisk will be imported temporarily rooted at /mnt. >> > Now run zfs list to view all the datasets in the pool. The root >> > dataset rpool/ROOT/opensolaris will not be mounted since it is >> > a "legacy" mount. You will have to mount that explicitly: >> > >> > mkdir /hdroot >> > mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris /hdroot >> > >> > If all goes well you can run: >> > /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt >> > and then reboot back into harddisk. >> > >> > Otherwise you can try running >> > zpool scrub rpool. >> > >> > The scrub command is vaguely similar to fsck. Execute >> > zpool status periodically to see whether errors were found. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Moinak. >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> ug-bosug mailing list >> >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ================================ >> > http://www.belenix.org/ >> > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ug-bosug mailing list >> > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Angad Singh >> http://blogs.sun.com/angad >> Sun Campus Ambassador Tech Lead >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- Angad Singh http://blogs.sun.com/angad Sun Campus Ambassador Tech Lead
