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. Dave
