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Originally Posted by
jlliagre
Installing Solaris on the new disk should take care of everything, including installing the appropriate boot loader on the suitable slice. Note that since 2006 the boot loader is always Grub with x86.
Grub is composed of several parts, the first one is usually on the beginning of the disk (MBR) but not necessarily, the second one is on the beginning of a slice (stage 2) and the third one is composed of files located on the file system in that slice.
In any case, you shouldn't worry about installing Grub yourself, that will be done under the cover by the installer.
Typical scenarios under which the boot block would need to be manually installed is when someone mirror a boot boot disk or when an OS file system or root pool backup is being restored on a new disk. You doesn't look to be in either of these cases.
By the way, you failed to answer about which Solaris version you are using. The documentation link you posted is about Solaris 10. Why aren't you using Solaris 11?
The latest is Solaris 11.3 which was just released yesterday.
Hi Jlliagre,
Thanks for the advice.
q1) As you mentioned, Grub is the bootloader for X86, so stage 1 is in MBR, stage2 is in the beginning of the slice (which i think you are referring to active partition - in X86 term) -- so that would be s2 in the partition actually - right ?
q2) Also you mentioned that a installing a bootblock is normally done when someone mirror a bootdisk, but doesn't the original bootdisk already contain the bootblk, which will be mirror over already ? why do we need to manually do install the bootblock again ?
q3) Lastly, I always wondered as i am reading about Solaris Volume Manager, how do i install an OS on a mirror disk without installing the OS 1st ? (i mean how do we use SVM to create a mirror system disk for installing the OS onto it without installing the OS 1st)
Sorry for the noob questions.
Yea i am using Solaris 10 1/13. I didn't thought about upgrading to 11 yet as i am thinking of starting humbly before i fly.. (but seems like i cant even managed 10 now)...
;(
Regards,
Noob