I have recently upgraded my Supermicro X10SAT motherboard. I have also a SSD with a Windows10 partition and a Solaris 11.3 partition. Upon boot I press F11 and choose which partition I want to boot into. But after the bios upgrade, I cannot see the Solaris partition when I press "F11" to choose which partition to boot into. I can only see Windows10 partition. Why is that? Anyone have a clue? Anything with GRUB?
Does your new BIOS release notes say anything about which version(s) of GRUB it will work with?
---------- Post updated 28-09-17 at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous update was 27-09-17 at 06:56 PM ----------
I've just looked up your motherboard and found it supports a BIOS/UEFI combo. So the 'BIOS' you've upgraded to is probably using default settings. You should disable 'Secure Boot'.
Does your new BIOS release notes say anything about which version(s) of GRUB it will work with?
---------- Post updated 28-09-17 at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous update was 27-09-17 at 06:56 PM ----------
I've just looked up your motherboard and found it supports a BIOS/UEFI combo. So the 'BIOS' you've upgraded to is probably using default settings. You should disable 'Secure Boot'.
Thanks for your help. Regarding Secure Boot, it seems my mobo does not support it:
http://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=18134
Regarding GRUB, I dont even see the Solaris partition when pressing F11, where I normally choose which partition to boot from. So I can not even reach GRUB.
I booted into Win10 and looked at the disk via "disk manager", and wanted to see if I could mark the Solaris 11 partition as "active", but nope. I dont know what to do. Any suggestions?
So you are saying that the box boots straight into Windows?
You can't interrupt GRUB boot by powering up and holding down a shift key until a GRUB menu appears?
If you boot from a CD/DVD with disk tools can you still see the Solaris partition?
Earlier, before BIOS update, I booted into GRUB and Solaris. If I wanted to boot into Windows10, I had to press F11 and select Windows partition. There I saw several partitions to boot from; Solaris 11, Windows 10, USB, DVD, etc.
After BIOS update, I dont see the Solaris partition in the boot list when pressing F11. This means I cannot get into GRUB. I guess the Solaris 11 partition is still on the disk, because I can see it in Windows Disk Manager.
If I boot from Solaris 11 usb disk, I can probably access the Solaris partition again. But I dont see how that helps me, as I can not even see the Solaris 11 partition when pressing F11?
I am investigating if BIOS update have messed up BIOS legacy mode vs UEFI mode. Is that why I cannot even see the Solaris partition?
Well I'd say that, for sure, the BIOS 'upgrade' has caused the problem. As with everything in I.T., the last thing you did almost certainly is the cause of your issue unless there's some enormous coincidence that some fault developed at exactly the same time.
My point is that if you are still using GRUB then pressing ESC on old GRUB or holding down a SHIFT key on new GRUB should drop you to a menu at the point that GRUB has control.
Neither of those work?
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When changing from BIOS to UEFI usually 'secure boot' and Windows take charge of everything meaning you can only boot Windows unless you disable secure boot. Okay, I looked at the link that you posted and agree that you mobo doesn't support secure boot. Can you ask Supermicro? They must have seen this problem before.
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You might want to take a look at 'super grub' or 'super grub 2' (depending on which version you are using) which are bootable media for sorting out/reinstalling a working GRUB configuration.
I cannot even see the Solaris partition when pressing F11, which means I cannot get access to GRUB2.
My plan is to boot from the Solaris install USB stick, mount the correct Solaris partition, and then regenerate GRUB2 entries using "bootadm generate-menu". Now I need to figure out the commands how to do all this....
I should be doing something like this, I guess:
-boot from USB
-mount old zpool as /a
-cd /a
-bootadm generate-menu <----- I hope this generates GRUB2 on /a
-reboot
In the Ubuntu link above I gave, they use "grub-install --bootloader-id ubuntu /dev/sda" so I maybe have to use the "bootadm install-bootloader" instead
Boot from Solaris media.
Import root pool:
reboot the system.
UPDATE3:
I am testing right now, and I will write a cleaned up version if I solve this. This is just my scratch notes while testing this.
I have done this:
-booted from Solaris 11.3 usb media
And now I dont know what to do. man pages say I should add -M switch on x86.
Question: is the correct name of the partition really c3t2d0s0? Sometimes people exchange to c3t2d0p0
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Ok, I think it boils down to this line, which I can not execute:
Anyone knows why?
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