Dave, a. I already installed the binary from bug 4755 (see step 3&5), with no success. b. Also from 'cdrecord -scabus' output the disk shows as "disk" instead of "removealbe disk", so chances are this is not the same as bug 4755 c. This issue does not give me GRUB menu at all, only stalls after displaying "GRUB" on the screen.
Thanks, Sean --- On Thu, 12/18/08, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote: > From: Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> > Subject: Re: [install-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11 fails to boot on USB disk > To: "Sean Liu" <seantempus at yahoo.com> > Cc: install-discuss at opensolaris.org, "Indiana Discuss" <indiana-discuss at > opensolaris.org> > Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 1:35 PM > 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
