[geeks] Solaris 10 x86 recovery

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/30/10 18:29, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Update:  Rebuilt the boot archive without incident, no errors reported.
>  ZFS reports both disk pools are clean and online.  As far as I can tell
> there is nothing wrong ... except that when I try to boot it, it just
> drops to a grub prompt and stops cold.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Anyone?

I just got babylon4 back up.  I could find absolutely nothing wrong
evwen after scrubbing both pools with zero reported errors, so I did the
last thing I could think of, reinstalling the grub bootblocks.  This worked.

I still don't know why the machine - and ONLY that machine - went down
in the first place, but now I can start reviewing logs to find out why.


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