Sean Liu wrote:
Vikram,
I have two hard disks and one stick.
The first harddisk has one Solaris partition, one slice c1t0d0s0 (s8t0d0s0 when
booted from USB stick), with ZFS on it, no UFS whatsoever.
The other hard disk has nothing on it, not even a partition (I deliberately
deleted all the partitions just to be safe)
Then there is the stick with B122 image on it.
When I boot from the first hard disk (specified with BIOS), it boots to GRUB
prompt and no further.
When I boot from the stick, I can at least get the GRUB menu, then go to command line and boot up
the first disk. However "find /boot/grub/menu.lst" hangs. Also "root" command
tells me the first disk is a UFS.
So we might be hitting a variant of bug 6771971 or something similar.
As far as the missing GRUB menu is concerned, the GRUB menu you see is
always from the 1st (i.e. boot) disk/stick. In the 1st disk case, the
menu is not accessible for some reason.
As far as the hang is concerned I notice that you have a splashimage
directive. Do you have a splash.xpm.gz in /rpool/boot/grub (note the
/rpool). A splashimage command pointing to a non-existent or non-image
file will cause all sorts of problems including reading the rest of the
GRUB menu.
As far as the find hang is concerned - where did you invoke it from -
when booting off the 1st hard disk or USB stick ?
root command does not tell you what the first disk is. It tells you what
the "current" slice is. The "current" slice as far as GRUB is concerned
could be anything depending on what commands were run before the root
command. For example when you do a "find", GRUB goes through every slice
on every disk accessible to it. So just running "root" at the GRUB
command line will only tell you what the last slice GRUB looked at is.
That slice could be anywhere on any disk.
Vikram
Thanks,
Sean
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