[ug-bosug] recovering solaris from the grub shell

[Moinak Ghosh]

GS Sreedhar wrote:
> Hi Ananth,
> I booted from Belenix and tried to re install the grub. My solaris 
> root is in /dev/desk/c0d0s0. However, when i give grub install i get 
> the error which says "device /dev/dsk/c0d0s2 is not a char device". 
> Hence, i am unable to recover the grub.

   The /dev/dsk/... indicates a block device. You need to use the 
character device
   interface so use /dev/rdsk/...

> Dear Moinak,
> After giving root (hd0,<tab>) in the grub i get a list of partitions 
> numbered from 0. Partition 1 shows BSD/Solaris and it is further 
> numbered from a to e. Each partition shows a file system.

   The a..e are sub-partitions called slices.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Could you please guide me how to proceed from there?
> Regards
> Sreedhar gs
>
>
> */Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM>/* wrote:
>
>     GS Sreedhar wrote:
>     > Hi All,
>     > I have solaris 11in my x86 system along with Windows XP. As is
>     common
>     > with windows, the system hanged and when i reset the system , i
>     lost
>     > the grub loader
>     > and on booting, the system shows the grub shell.Could anyone please
>     > tell me the file which will generally point to solaris in the grub?
>     > and how i could recover the lost grub loader?
>
>     Looks like GRUB stage 2 is unable to locate the menu.lst file. Looks
>     kind of weird
>     to me that a Windows hang would screw the MBR, though I have seen
>     this reported
>     by others.
>
>     In the GRUB shell enter the following: root (hd0,
>     Pressing the TAB key after "hd0," will display the list of
>     partitions. What do you see ?
>
>     Regards,
>     Moinak.
>
>     > Regards
>     > Sreedhar GS
>     >
>     >
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