Caimaniacs, we are currently seeing bunch of bugs reporting problem when people end up in 'grub>' prompt after the installation of recent OpenSolaris build (101a).
The root cause of this problem hasn't been identified yet and there are more possibilities what might be happening here. So far it seems that at least some of them are related to ZFS in some way - those cases could be easily identified, as there is straightforward workaround to make GRUB find menu.lst file. P1 bug was filed to track this in 'solaris/kernel/zfs' category: 6769487 Ended up in 'grub>' prompt after installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11 (build 101a) When new bug is reported complaining about ending up in 'grub>', please don't close the bug as duplicate without appropriate evaluation done, as there are more ways how one could end up in GRUB prompt and we might be missing other issues which are not related to 6769487 (e.g. when /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst file was not created). Thank you, Jan How to triage: -------------- * In all cases, ask reporter to attach /tmp/install_log file With LiveCD, this can be obtained using following procedure: [1] Boot LiveCD [2] From terminal window: $ pfexec su - # zpool import -f rpool # beadm mount opensolaris /a install_log file is located in /a/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log * Ask reporter to verify if workaround for 6769487 works in reported case (workaround was actually applied in previous step). [1] boot LiveCD [2] Open terminal window and import 'rpool' $ pfexec su - # zpool import -f rpool [3] Reboot from hard drive and verify if workaround was successful. * If workaround worked, the bug might be closed as 'tracked in bugster' In that case, please put also following text in Whiteboard: BugsterCR=6769487 * If workaround didn't work, additional evaluation will have to be done, as issue reported is probably not related to 6769487. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
