[geeks] Solaris 10 x86 recovery?

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sat Jan 30 17:29:55 CST 2010


On 01/30/10 18:06, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Curiouser and curiouser ... the Solaris 10 10/2009 DVD autodetected
> babylon4's root pool and mounted it just fine on /a, and as far as
> either I or zfs scrub can tell, there is nothing whatsoever wrong with
> it.  So why wouldn't grub boot it.....?  Did grub manage to do something
> completely ass-stupid with its configuration or something?

Update:  Rebuilt the boot archive without incident, no errors reported.
 ZFS reports both disk pools are clean and online.  As far as I can tell
there is nothing wrong ... except that when I try to boot it, it just
drops to a grub prompt and stops cold.

Any suggestions?  Anyone?

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