GS Sreedhar wrote: > Hi Ananth, > I booted from Belenix and tried to re install the grub. My solaris > root is in /dev/desk/c0d0s0. However, when i give grub install i get > the error which says "device /dev/dsk/c0d0s2 is not a char device". > Hence, i am unable to recover the grub.
The /dev/dsk/... indicates a block device. You need to use the character device interface so use /dev/rdsk/... > Dear Moinak, > After giving root (hd0,<tab>) in the grub i get a list of partitions > numbered from 0. Partition 1 shows BSD/Solaris and it is further > numbered from a to e. Each partition shows a file system. The a..e are sub-partitions called slices. Regards, Moinak. > Could you please guide me how to proceed from there? > Regards > Sreedhar gs > > > */Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM>/* wrote: > > GS Sreedhar wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have solaris 11in my x86 system along with Windows XP. As is > common > > with windows, the system hanged and when i reset the system , i > lost > > the grub loader > > and on booting, the system shows the grub shell.Could anyone please > > tell me the file which will generally point to solaris in the grub? > > and how i could recover the lost grub loader? > > Looks like GRUB stage 2 is unable to locate the menu.lst file. Looks > kind of weird > to me that a Windows hang would screw the MBR, though I have seen > this reported > by others. > > In the GRUB shell enter the following: root (hd0, > Pressing the TAB key after "hd0," will display the list of > partitions. What do you see ? > > Regards, > Moinak. > > > Regards > > Sreedhar GS > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The DELETE button on Yahoo! Mail is unhappy. Know why? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ug-bosug mailing list > > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Click here > <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_webmessenger_2/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
