#zpool export rpool
I swapped the 2 drives around again, so that 2008.11 was in the laptop.
Booting up brings up the splash screen; it starts as though it means to boot up
followed by dark screen then back to the splash screen.
Starting in text mode brings up the first few lines and then back t
looks like it missed quite a bit out - I guess it was too long; undeterred will
post in chunks...
It all worked as expected and I could still boot from the 2008.11 usb drive.
Next step
I inserted a new sata drive in the laptop and again installed 2008.11
Also again, I wanted to copy the /u01 d
I've been running with zfs bootable snv_103 on my laptop for a number of
weeks.
When 2008.11 arrived I installed it on a spare usb ide drive.
I wanted to copy rootpool/u01 from the booted snv_103 over to the
2008.11 usb drive so entered
zpool import -R /test -f rpool
where 'rpool' is the p
Over the weekend, I installed opensolaris 2008.11 onto a removable harddisk on
my laptop (having previously removed the zfs bootable snv_103 imaged
harddrive). - side note: opensolaris could do with a companion cd as it takes a
long long time to install the usefull/essential software from the re
Thanks to Iain Curtain.
1. boot into single user mode from dvd, then su.
2. mount the rootpool as r/w on /a when prompted
3. run: installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
4. reboot
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Still no luck :-(
I installed snv_100 on a new disk, mounted the old disk and copied the home
directories etc.
and now at least I have a system that works, if somewhat stunted cf the old
system.
It would be good if the old disk could be brought back to its former glory...
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Since the above post, I downloaded Super Grub and managed to recover a trashed
(grub) FC8 installation that was lost when nevada was installed some time back.
This now has as well as the FC 8 prompt in the Grub menu:
title Solaris - BE1
rootnoverify (hd0,2,a)
chainloader +1
I attempted a live upgrade of snv_100 ufs laptop over the weekend to zfs.
It failed a couple of times complaining about not having enough space.
I decided to put the zfs upgrade on the back burner and deleted the
failed BE - naturally no luactivate was done at any time.
I didn't delete the the BE's
