Installed Solaris, No OS-boot sector is recognized.

Question

Hello,
I just installed Solaris 10 11/06 version on x86 Intel pentium. I followed through every steps, ejected the DVD and upon restart ,nothing happens, it mentions press a key to continue and restarts and comes back to the same point.
My assumption is that the menu.lst is not updated or not sure. There is no operating system boot happening,How do you set the bootloader to pick the Solairs Operating System from disk partition C0D0S0, what are the main entries in the menu.lst, is this what i should be doing. I logged via the DVD boot and get a prompt, i tried bootadm and other utilities, any help.
Basically the Solaris is installed but just need to configure the bootloader or bios to recognize Solaris OS is installed. My bios setting points to HDD.
Any help would be great
Thanks
MJ

Answer 1

A couple things you can I'd look at or do. First I'd make sure that your ribbon connected to your hdd is not loose. A bad ribbon, or intermitten one will cause your hdd not being recognized. If you're sure it good then try booting from the installation DVD and at the prompt type the following command:
installgrub
That should reinstall grub for you.
You can also try booting in safe mode and run the following command:
- bootadm update-archive -f -R /a.
That should update your boot archive.
More good grub info is located at:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/grub_boot_faq.html#q19
Also, if you want to try editing you're copy of /boot/grub/menu.1st. Here's a copy of what mine looks like:
# default menu entry to boot
default 0
# menu timeout in second before default OS is booted
# set to -1 to wait for user input
timeout 10
# To enable grub serial console to ttya uncomment the following lines
# and comment out the splashimage line below
# WARNING: don't enable grub serial console when BIOS console serial
#     redirection is active!!!
# serial unit=0 speed=9600
# terminal serial
# Uncomment the following line to enable GRUB splashimage on console
splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# To chainload another OS
# title Another OS
#     root (hd<disk no>,<partition no>)
#     chainloader +1
# To chainload a Solaris release not based on grub
# title Solaris 9
#     root (hd<disk no>,<partition no>)
#     chainloader +1
#     makeactive
# To load a Solaris instance based on grub
# title Solaris <version>
#     root (hd<disk no>,<partition no>,x)     --x = Solaris root slice
#     kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
#     module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
# To override Solaris boot args (see kernel(1M)), console device and
# properties set via eeprom(1M) edit the "kernel" line to:
# kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot <boot-args> -B prop1=val1,prop2=val2,...
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
Message was edited by:
mrmdls
Added a copy of /boot/grub/menu.1st