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

[Juergen Keil]

2009/5/4 Matt Ingenthron <ingenthr at cep.net>:
> Juergen Keil wrote:
>>
>> I currently have no idea what's broken on your system...
>>
>>
>> When you boot and the system stops at the grub> console:
>> what is reported by grub's "root" command?  Does it report
>> that it uses a zfs root filesystem?
>>
>
> Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk.
>
> Hmmm.  That would seem to indicate the wrong stage2 (?) was loaded?  I'm not
> a grub expert, so I don't off the top of my head recall which stage is
> which.
>
> If I do give it the findroot, it's obviously okay.  Then it has:
> (hd0,0,a): Filesystem type is zfs, partition type 0xbf
>
> Thanks for the help on this,

Grub stage1 is in the first sector of the Solaris fdisk partition,
and contains a pointer to stage2; in my virtualbox installation
stage2 was following stage1.


Grub could be looking at the wrong disk drive, when looking for
the /boot/grub/menu.lst file

And the findroot is scanning all available bios drives and
corrects the problem?