Aubrey Li wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote: >> Sean Liu wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Since my SATA controller is not supported by OpenSolaris, I downloaded the >>> usb image from genunix and copied to a USB stick, then used the stick to >>> install it to a Western Digital USB disk partition. (I installed >>> opensolaris 2008.5 to the partition on a dell laptop before and it worked >>> fine BTW) >>> >>> 1. After the installation, the disk would not boot at all (nothing shows on >>> the screen) >>> 2. I booted up the stick and installed grub to the disk (with -m option), >>> after reboot the screen shows "GRUB" then stops, there is no menu at all. >>> 3. After reading this message >>> https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=311082 , I did >>> following: >>> a. zero'ed out the whole partition (s2) with "dd" >>> b. reinstalled opensolaris 2008.11 >>> 4. After reboot, nothing shows on screen again >>> 5. Booted into stick, downloaded the grub binary attachment, installed the >>> grub ( with -m ), reboot, same sympton as step 2. (Only GRUB on screen, >>> nothing else) >>> >> ... >>> Any ideas why it can't boot? Any help is appreciated. >>> >> Take a look at bug 4755: >> >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4755 >> >> which has some additional possible workarounds. >> > > I run into a similar problem. I installed 0811 into a USB disk, and > run the workaround mentioned in > http://blogs.sun.com/blogfinger/entry/installing_opensolaris_2008_11_on > > After reboot, I even can't see the grub screen, there is only a cursor > keep ticking. > I tried to boot from livecd and installgrub of the both stage1 and > stage2 files in the CD again. > I also tried to updategrub after import the rpool. But all my effort > took no effect. > I still can't see the grub screen. >
That sounds more like a BIOS problem, honestly. Are you able to boot other operating systems that you install onto this disk? Dave
