[indiana-discuss] disappearance of SUNWgnu-libiconv and other issues with 111a

[Matt Ingenthron]

Matt Ingenthron wrote:
> Jürgen Keil wrote:
>>> 1) Grub seems broken after the update.  The system boots to a 
>>> "grub>" prompt.  Feeding it the equivalent of what is in the 
>>> menu.lst it will boot, but after that boot invoking installgrub did 
>>> not help with subsequent reboots.  The menu.lst is correct.  The 
>>> most recent thing I've tried is doing a beadm activate old/new... 
>>> we'll see if that fixes it.  This is somewhat concerning to me, as 
>>> it would leave a lot of users stuck.
>>>     
>>
>> Did you perhaps set compression = gzip for the rpool filesystem?
>>   
>
> No.  Also, it still has that behavior after using beadm to activate 
> another BE then going back.
>
> I've backed off to 2008.11 and now done a beadm activate change/change 
> back.  We'll see if that has an effect.

It did not.  Other than installgrub and beadm activate, what else should 
I be doing from my 2008.11 install to get grub back in working order?

As I said earlier, the menu.lst appears correct and typing in the 
pertinent lines at the "grub>" prompt will allow the system to boot. 

Thanks,

- Matt