On Wed, 7 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm using the latest openSolaris.....and since I can no longer boot
ANYTHING, I can't add -k to the boot
options.
I'm looking for help to get my system running again.... and I'm insulted that you
would think it's just "a gripe
email"!!
In order to get booting back, you can:
- if the grub menu still appears, do a "c" there
- if not, boot from CD/DVD and do a "c" when the grub menu
appears
Once on the grub command line, a sequence:
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot
will boot your windows primary partition - assuming that's the first one
on the disk. If it's not the first one, try (hd0,1), (hd0,2) and so on.
Once in windows, a commandline and then a "fdisk c:\ /mbr" will get you
the standard DOS/Windows master boot record back, so that your machine
will simply boot into windows the next time it tries to look at the
harddisk.
Booting into a Linux partition works similar. Get into any (doesn't matter
whether booted from CD or wherever) GRUB menu, do a "c" to get a grub
command prompt, and then:
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/initrd
boot
that's the normal way - again, the number in the 'root ...' line is the
partition you're booting from, and might be different on your box.
Hope that'll get your system back ?
FrankH.
Something was drastically changed by my installing openSolaris which prevents
me from successfully installing
ANYTHING else!
There is nothing between the lines in what I originally posted. I'm looking
for help to restore my laptop to
something other than the paperweight that openSolaris created and your comment
is not appreciated!
El Edwards
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Elwood Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 4:41 pm
Subject: Re: [osol-code] Well, this isn't good :( .......
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:32:15AM -0700, Elwood Edwards wrote:
> I installed openSolaris (dual boot with WinXP). After rebooting, I
> got as far as the login screen and my laptop lcoked up....couldn't
> type or move the mouse. Rebooted several times; same result.
You might try booting into kmdb in this situation (add -k to your boot
options). And/or booting -m milestone=none and seeing if something
happening in userland is triggering the problem by them bringing
things up one at a time.
Since you didn't even tell us what build you were using, there's not
much we can do other than suggest broad debugging strategies. If this
was just a gripe mail, please ignore my message.
--
Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!"
Fishworks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
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