I tried to be clever and botched my upgrade. Now I don't get a grub menu, only an error like this:
===================== Booting 'BE3 Solaris xVM' findroot (BE_BE3,1,a) Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue ===================== I do not see a grub menu prior to this error, only the Stage1 Stage2 message which goes past very fast. Prior to this error I booted from a CD to single-user mode and ran installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdsk/XXXXXs0 I did this because at that point grub just gave me a grub prompt and I don't know grub well enough to boot from there. I rather suspect that if I manage to boot the system there will be a way to fix it permanently. But now rather let me give the sequence of events that led up to this in the order they happened. 1. I took the disk out of the laptop, and made it bootable in an external enclosure. This was a couple of days ago - I posted about the fun I had with that previously, but essentially booting to safemode and importing the rpool caused the on-disk device-path to be updated, making the disk once more bootable. 2. I partitioned the new disk, creating a solaris2 partition and on that a single hog-slice layout. s0 is the whole partition, minus slice 8 and 9. 3. I create a new future root pool, like this zpool create RPOOL -f c0d0s0 Note: -f required because s2 overlaps. 4. Ran lucreate, like this lucreate -p RPOOL -n BE4 This finished fine. I used upper-case RPOOL to distinguish it from the BE3 rpool. 5. mounted new Nevada build ISO on /mnt and ran upgraded the live-upgrade packages. 6. luupgrade -s /mnt -n BE4 7. lumount BE4 and peeked around in there a little. After this I rebooted, and got no grub menu, just a grub> prompt. I then booted from the CD and ran installgrub. Not being able to get to man pages, I have tried it two times with different options, with reboots in between, like this: > installgrub zfs_stage1_5 stage2 /dev/rds/xxxxs0 > installgrub -m stage1 stage2 /dev/rdsk/xxxxxxs2 This at least got me the error above (Am I now worse off or better off than I were when I had the grub> prmpt?). I then booted from the CD again and tried /boot/solaris/bin/update_grub as I found that in these forums, but it does not seem to have made any difference. I don't know if the command takes any options, I just ran it and it finished very quickly and without errors. Note: Due to past editing of the menu.lst file, the default item points to the BE3 xVM entry. I just tap the up-arrow and enter to load the "non-xVM" entry. Note: I never ran luactivate during the above procedure. Note: When booting to single-user shell from the install CD, it tells me that it finds both rpool (BE3) and RPOOL (BE4), allowing me to select one to mount on /a, however they do not mount, I get an error but I forgot to write that down. I get the same error for both. I could now just re-install and recover my data (I keep my data far away from OS disks/pools), or I can try to fix grub. I hope to learn from this process so my questions are: 1. What is up with grub here? I don't get a menu, but it does remember the old menu entry name for the default entry. This happens even when I try to boot without the External drive plugged in. 2. How can I edit the grub commands? What does "Error 15: File not found" mean? Is it looking for the grub menu? Or a program to boot? 3. Removing the internal disk from the machine may help... I am not sure to what extent grub uses the BIOS boot disk priority... Maybe that will get the external disk bootable again? 4. Should I try to get the grub menu back (from where I can try options to edit the boot entries), or should I try to get the grub> prompt back? Or should I try to get one of the pools to import? Where do I go from here? Note: I have been careful not to touch or break anything on the external disk. However I never tried to reboot since partitioning the new disk with an ACTIVE partition, the way it is at present. I think this could also affect grub's perception of what disks are what. Thank you, _Johan
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