Unixmen: Burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB.
Tag Archives: GRUB
OpenSolaris GRUB> boot failure HELP
By d_oilen
Hi,
i am running an old Opensolaris 5.11 snv_111b on an x86 server. After almost 4 years of successful service, last night out of the blue started to refuse all connections to it’s services, ssh, http,etc. The only visible solution at that time was a restart. But now instead of booting the machine stops at GRUB> prompt. Findroot returns zfs_read error : 15 File not found. Grub is 0.97 and i’m sure i did not perform any updates over night. Can i recover from this? the machine is pretty important still and i need at least eiter to be able to boot it again or recover the data there.
No hardware issues so far because i transferred the disks in an attempt to see if it is an HW error to a different identical machine and the symptom persists.
Any clues about the issue? How can i fix this?
regards,
From: http://www.unix.com/solaris/221349-opensolaris-grub-boot-failure-help.html
Mageia 3 Beta 4 Live Images are Here
Boot Artwork for Kubuntu 13.04
At Kubuntu we value user feedback a lot and so we worked on new boot artwork that is largely based on input from previous releases.
It features not only our traditional but nevertheless excitingly awesome blue but is alltogether striving to be as subtile as possible.
(also we fixed a long-standing bug in GRUB, I hope you noticed )
From: http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/boot-artwork-for-kubuntu-13-04/
VMWare Solaris – How do I boot from CD?
By bstring
Hello,
I have a Solaris 10 x86 VM and I am trying to access the Solaris install menu.
I have the ISO set to connect on startup, and I can see that it is mounted in my system. But when I power on the VM, the GRUB menu comes up and I only have the option of booting Solaris.
Also I have tried the “reboot — cdrom” command and I have the same result.
…read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at The UNIX and Linux Forums
How to dual-boot Fedora 18 and Windows 8 on 1 HDD, with GRUB in a PBR
By finid From LinuxBSDos.com.
This is the latest article on Fedora on this website. To view the complete list of Fedora-related articles, visit the distribution’s category page at…
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Source: FULL ARTICLE at LinuxBSDos
Now that Kaptan has been ported, YALI’s waiting
By finid
Borrowing code or programs written by others is an accepted practice in the Free Software community. It is perfectly legal, being one of the core principles that defines Free Software. For open source or free software coders, it makes sense. Why write something from scratch when somebody else has already written it? Just take it and run, or take it and extend it.
One area I think that distro developers are overlooking with regards to reusing code concerns installation programs. Many distributions, especially those that are based on Ubuntu, have very easy-to-use, but plain-vanilla installers. Even the latest edition of Ubuntu’s installer is still not good enough (see Note to EFF: FDE implementation in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity is only at 50% and The state of manual LVM and full disk encryption configuration in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity).
A few distro developers have written new installers, but they are not even as good as Ubuntu’s plain-vanilla installer. A prime example is the installer on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Another is Cinnarch‘s. That leaves me wondering why these new installers are being written when the developers could just port an existing one. I’m not a coder, so I do not know how easy or difficult the process is, but given that others have done it, I don’t think it should be that difficult, even when the installer that could be ported belongs to a distro from a different lineage.
Take Sabayon, a multi-purpose distribution based on Gentoo Linux. Its installer is a port of Anaconda, the Fedora Project’s installation program. So if Anaconda can be ported to Sabayon, it should not be that difficult to port YALI.
YALI (Yet Another Linux Installer) is the installer on Pardus, an original distribution (it is not based on any distribution). Development has, for now, ceased. And, as far as I know, it is not likely to be restarted, at least not by the original developers. Aside from YALI, Pardus has other applications that could be ported. The graphical firewall manager, the graphical package manager and Kaptan, the first boot application. Kaptan has already been ported to Chakra, a Linux distribution forked from Arch Linux.
So, what distribution could benefit the most from porting YALI? For one, Chakra, LMDE and Cinnarch could use YALI. Even Ubuntu and by extension, all the distributions that are derived and use its installer.
By my standards, YALI is not feature-complete, but it’s better than the installers of the above distributions. Aside from a beautiful user interface, it has support for LVM and RAID. It also has a restart feature, which is unique to it. The missing features are support for full disk encryption and boot loader password protection.
The following screen shots show most of the steps involved in using YALI.
YALI’s date picker.
Time zone options on YALI.
Setting up user accounts on YALI. The default user login setting is to require authentication to login.
Specifying the root account password and the hostname.
The four partitioning methods on YALI.
Disk partitioning schemes on YALI. LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, and RAID are supported. LVM is the default partitioning scheme.
LVM configuration options
Selecting mount points.
Supported file system types on YALI.
Boot loader configuration step on YALI. GRUB, the GRand Unufied Bootloader, is the boot loader on Pardus 2011. The GRUB version is 0.97, GRUB Legacy. Though YALI does not have support for setting a GRUB password, it is possible to do that after installation.
I’m looking forward to the first distro developer who will port and extend YALI. Any takers?
Source: FULL ARTICLE at LinuxBSDos
Installing Solaris 11.1 on Red Hat system?
By JWH
I’m wanting to install Solaris 11.1 on a system that already has Windows and Red Hat and a boot system managed by GRUB.
From what I’ve read, the Solaris 11.1 install will recognize Windows fine and account for it with GRUB 2. But it doesn’t mention any other OS.
It talks about installing on systems with Solaris 10 and the previous GRUB version (legacy), but the instructions are fixed on Solaris 10 – no other OS.
Can someone tell me if they’ve sucessfully installed Solaris 11.1 on a system with Red Hat – without erasing Red Hat?
Thank-you,
– John
Usbcopy fails with the error message sol-11_1-live-x86.usb is not a multiple of 512
By taltamir
I am trying to create a live image of solaris 11.1.
I have used
I have used
Code:
#pkg image-update
to upgrade from 11 to 11.1 already.
then from within 11.1 I used
Code:
pkg install install distribution-constructor
to get latest usbcopy that should be compatible with the new GRUB
then I tried:
Code:
taltamir@new-host:/tank/share/My Downloads (Software)/Operating Systems/Solaris# usbcopy sol-11_1-live-x86.usb
Found the following USB devices:
0: /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0p0 1.9 GB CBM USB 2.0 8.07
Enter the number of your choice: 0
WARNING: All data on your USB storage will be lost.
Are you sure you want to install to
CBM USB 2.0 8.07, 1900 MB at /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0p0 ? (y/n) y
lofiadm: size of /tank/share/My Downloads (Software)/Operating Systems/Solaris/sol-11_1-live-x86.usb is not a multiple of 512
Error:
: Failed to lofiadm sol-11_1-live-x86.usb
What is the problem?