[indiana-discuss] following upgrade to dev .. no working bootup

[Glenn Lagasse]

* Harry Putnam (reader at newsguy.com) wrote:
> [ Also posted on opensolaris.general ... [probably wrong group -ed hp]
>   also gave me a chance to pare some of the sniveling out]
> 
> I'm sorry to be sniveling about this but I'm having a heck of a time
> finding basic troubleshooting guides.  The documentation link on
> opensolaris.org leads to a list that includes System Administration
> but I didn't find basic stuff there... like how to -s boot or how to
> fix a gui boot gone astray.
> 
> I've installed from osol-11 101b LiveCd.
> 
> Later attempted upgrading to dev.
> 
> I used the awkward clunky, slow GUI package manager because I couldn't
> make out enough from `man pkg' to feel at all confident about doing it
> that way.  Where some of it is easy enough, there is a something or a
> dirth of examples.

pfexec pkg image-update is what you're after.  And yes, it's that
simple.  You may need to do pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg prior, but
image-update will tell you that if it determines that you need to.

> Cutting to the chase here... In the gui:
> 
> I added the dev repo and made it primary.
> 
> Then hit the update button.  It ran quite a while and asked me a
> couple of things... the only one I remember now was really more a
> statement than a question telling me I was creating a new BE to boot
> into.
> 
> Finally the pkg manager declared success.
> 
> I rebooted and now cannot boot into the OS at all.  If I just leave
> the bootup alone and let grub timeout and boot...  this boot line is
> activated:   
>    OpenSolaris-1
> 
> it ends in a white screen that flashes slowly two or three times then
> just remains white .... forever.

You're probably running into 6331

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6331

So, when you're booted to the grub menu:

Use 'd' to delete the following three lines from GRUB menu:

    splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
    foreground d25f00
    background 115d93

Remove ",console=graphics" from the end of the kernel$ line using 'e' 
for edit.

Boot - press 'b'

You should see the bootup messages now and most likely the console login
prompt eventually.

Once booted, you can log in and run pfexec svcadm clear nwam and GDM
(gui login manager) should start up.

To make the console=graphics change stick permanently (so that you can
see what's going on until 6331 is fixed) just edit
/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst.

Cheers,

-- 
Glenn