11-21-2016
Solaris stuck during boot after reconfigure boot
Hello,
I have a problem with my machine that won't boot properly.
The story is that I installed a software called apcupsd, which is a control application for my APC battery UPS. I have used version 3.14.10 earlier, but as part of restoring my previously crashed os harddrive I wanted to install it again and this time took the latest version 3.14.14.
Anyway, after compile, make and make install the installation script instructed that I should do a reconfigure boot using reboot -- -r before starting it for the first time.
(I should add that the ups has been connected with a USB cable since a few weeks back I just haven't installed the software up until now.)
Without perhaps fully understanding what a reconfigure boot entails, I happily entered reboot -- -r and the computer started shutting down and the ssh connection got lost as part of it shutting down.
As it is a headless server I could at the time not really see what was happening, but when I could not contact the machine 10 minutes later I got worried and connected a monitor to it. It had froze with just a text line with sunos etc. with a non blinking cursor. So I waited a little while and then powercycled the machine. After that it booted past grub to the Oracle/Solaris splash screen with the spinning circle and was stuck there for a few hours. With the circle still spinning I figured that it had got stuck on something and that another powercycle would make it leave reconfiguring and boot as normal.
Again it got past grub to the spinning circle and there it has been standing overnight and the whole day today.
I am really lost and need some help on where to begin resolving this. Can I make it boot normally some how or what can I do?
Last edited by Zorken; 11-21-2016 at 01:38 PM..
Reason: Clearing up after posting from mobile phone
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
grub-reboot
GRUB-REBOOT(8) System Administration Utilities GRUB-REBOOT(8)
NAME
grub-reboot - set the default boot entry for GRUB, for the next boot only
SYNOPSIS
grub-reboot [OPTION] MENU_ENTRY
DESCRIPTION
Set the default boot menu entry for GRUB, for the next boot only.
-h, --help
print this message and exit
-V, --version
print the version information and exit
--boot-directory=DIR
expect GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory
MENU_ENTRY is a number, a menu item title or a menu item identifier. Please note that menu items in submenus or sub-submenus require speci-
fying the submenu components and then the menu item component. The titles should be separated using the greater-than character (>) with no
extra spaces. Depending on your shell some characters including > may need escaping. More information about this is available in the GRUB
Manual in the section about the 'default' command.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
SEE ALSO
grub-set-default(8), grub-editenv(1)
The full documentation for grub-reboot is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-reboot programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info grub-reboot
should give you access to the complete manual.
grub-reboot (GRUB) 2.02-2ubuntu8.3 July 2018 GRUB-REBOOT(8)