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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Sounds like you've either trashed your GRUB config or it can't find/access it.
Try manually booting your ufs partition by using a GRUB entry like this:
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findroot (hd0,2,a)
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
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You may need to try a differ
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
