Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread axelle_apvrille
Hi Collin, Is your bios definitely set up to boot from that disk? It's possible that your linux grub is actually on the other drive. Oops... how stupid indeed! The 2nd disk was booting first :( I've found my opensolaris grub waiting for me on the right disk... I'll now need to work out how

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-30 10:01, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Collin, Is your bios definitely set up to boot from that disk? It's possible that your linux grub is actually on the other drive. Oops... how stupid indeed! The 2nd disk was booting first :( I've found my opensolaris grub waiting for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jean-Pierre
axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Collin, Is your bios definitely set up to boot from that disk? It's possible that your linux grub is actually on the other drive. Oops... how stupid indeed! The 2nd disk was booting first :( I've found my opensolaris grub waiting for me on the right disk...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre wrote: axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Collin, Is your bios definitely set up to boot from that disk? It's possible that your linux grub is actually on the other drive. Oops... how stupid indeed! The 2nd disk was booting first :( I've found my opensolaris grub waiting for me

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-30 11:27, Jean-Pierre wrote: title Linux kernel /boot/vmlinuz... (copy the full line) initrd /boot/initramfs... (copy the full line) I think my attempt's problem was that the whole linux partition was designated as an LVM container, and there were soft-partitions for boot,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread axelle_apvrille
Hi, I'll now need to work out how to have Linux/Windows/OpenIndiana on the same grub, but I've seen docs about that. OI and Windows is relatively simple, via chainloading. OI and recent Linux (with GRUB2, or rather new filesystems not supported by OI's version of GRUB) - this may be more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
I always keep a copy of this to hand: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ helpful any time I get a system that f*cks up grub or grub2 :) On 30 August 2013 13:54, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi, I'll now need to work out how to have Linux/Windows/OpenIndiana on the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jean-Pierre
Hi, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi, I'll now need to work out how to have Linux/Windows/OpenIndiana on the same grub, but I've seen docs about that. OI and Windows is relatively simple, via chainloading. OI and recent Linux (with GRUB2, or rather new filesystems not supported by OI's

[OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Axelle Apvrille
FYI, I have successfully chain loaded OI grub to Linux's GRUB2. I just had to add an entry title Linux rootnoverify (hd1,0) -- in my case chainloader +1 and it successfully hopped to linux's grub on my second disk. Thanks Axelle. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Colin Ellis
I've done that! I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out why my boot flags weren't being passed to a running kernel when I kept booting with a similar grub on a different disk... Glad you have it working. Colin On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:01 AM, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Collin,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre wrote: Hi, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi, I'll now need to work out how to have Linux/Windows/OpenIndiana on the same grub, but I've seen docs about that. OI and Windows is relatively simple, via chainloading. OI and recent Linux (with GRUB2, or rather new filesystems not