I seem to have found the reason for my delema (but not what caused it or how to fix it)
According to: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/grub_boot_solaris.html GRUB as obtained from sources other than Sun does not currently recognize Solaris on-disk VTOC and UFS formats. Sun has submitted changes to the GRUB project to support this; until they have been integrated, only the Solaris GRUB will work. If Linux installed GRUB on the master boot block, you will not be able to get to the Solaris OS even if you make the Solaris partition the active partition. In this case, you can chainload from the Linux GRUB by modifying the menu on Linux. Alternatively, you can replace the master boot sector with the Solaris GRUB in the above example, by using the installgrub(1M) command: installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s3 Before the Solaris VTOC and UFS implementation is propagated to the standard GRUB release, only the Solaris version of GRUB will work. Well I did not load any other version of grub on my system (that i am aware of). Also I do not have access right now to my installation cd's so I can only boot my laptop off of the Belenix DVD...it does not contain the files /boot/grub/stage1 and /boot/grub/stage2 (it does contain the files /boot/grub/ufs_stage1_5 and /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5...can these be used instead?) still in grub-hell..... Merle This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
