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From: BertieBigBollox on 10 Dec 2009 09:43
Had a working system. Booted up fine but now it goes into grub,
attempts to boot, displays sun copyright lines and then reboots and
loops around.

Grub entries are:-
findroot (rootfs0,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
module /platform/i86pc/boot-archive

Also, got an entry in grub for failsafe solaris boot and this boots up
ok:-
findroot (rootfs0,0,a)
kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe

Its on a laptop and I've got a feeling the user may have been powering
off without shutting down properly and that this has corrupt
something.

Anyway, is there a command to fixboot or something?

Or would I be better off booting from sol10 cd and doing an inplace
upgrade?
From: Richard B. Gilbert on 10 Dec 2009 09:55
BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Had a working system. Booted up fine but now it goes into grub,
> attempts to boot, displays sun copyright lines and then reboots and
> loops around.
>
> Grub entries are:-
> findroot (rootfs0,0,a)
> kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
> module /platform/i86pc/boot-archive
>
> Also, got an entry in grub for failsafe solaris boot and this boots up
> ok:-
> findroot (rootfs0,0,a)
> kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
> module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe
>
> Its on a laptop and I've got a feeling the user may have been powering
> off without shutting down properly and that this has corrupt
> something.
>
> Anyway, is there a command to fixboot or something?
>
> Or would I be better off booting from sol10 cd and doing an inplace
> upgrade?

Have you tried booting from CD/DVD and running fsck on your disk? All
partitions, of course; If the boot partition is fsck'ed up you have to
expect that the rest of the disk may be in less than perfect shape.
From: BertieBigBollox on 10 Dec 2009 10:50
On Dec 10, 2:55 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
> BertieBigBol...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > Had a working system. Booted up fine but now it goes into grub,
> > attempts to boot, displays sun copyright lines and then reboots and
> > loops around.
>
> > Grub entries are:-
> > findroot (rootfs0,0,a)
> > kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
> > module /platform/i86pc/boot-archive
>
> > Also, got an entry in grub for failsafe solaris boot and this boots up
> > ok:-
> > findroot (rootfs0,0,a)
> > kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
> > module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe
>
> > Its on a laptop and I've got a feeling the user may have been powering
> > off without shutting down properly and that this has corrupt
> > something.
>
> > Anyway, is there a command to fixboot or something?
>
> > Or would I be better off booting from sol10 cd and doing an inplace
> > upgrade?
>
> Have you tried booting from CD/DVD and running fsck on your disk?  All
> partitions, of course; If the boot partition is fsck'ed up you have to
> expect that the rest of the disk may be in less than perfect shape.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

No. I'll try that.
From: BertieBigBollox on 10 Dec 2009 10:51
Also, I recently changed the boot order in the BIOS (to remove CD boot
as the first choice). Would this affect anything that grub was trying
to do?
From: hume.spamfilter on 10 Dec 2009 11:20
In comp.unix.solaris BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com <bertiebigbollox(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I recently changed the boot order in the BIOS (to remove CD boot
> as the first choice). Would this affect anything that grub was trying

That shouldn't matter.

Also, if your failsafe boot option works okay, it shouldn't be necessary to
boot from DVD/CD. Just boot from failsafe, and do your checks from
maintenance mode.

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