Stuck at grub prompt

Hi, i'm new to solaris and am trying to install it on my pc.
I downloaded bot the a and b dvd images and burned them to disc
I then put the disk in and start up, I see:
Loading stage2...
Then I see:
GNU GRUB version 0.95
[some stuff here about minimal BASH-like line editing]
grub>
Now what do I do?
I tried typing install but that was unrecognised.. What do i need to type to start the install process?

The 'a' and 'b' files need to be combined into one ISO file. You can do it like this:
% for i in sol-10-u4-ga-x86-dvd-iso-?.zip; do unzip -p $i; done > sol-10-u4-ga-x86-dvd.iso
Alternatively, if you've already unzipped the files, you can make one file like this:
% cat sol-10-u4-ga-x86-dvd-iso-? > sol-10-u4-ga-x86-dvd.iso
Then, burn the resulting ISO and boot off of it.

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I just upgraded my Thinkpad T61 following
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After completeing the upgrade I got an error "Unable to start shell:/bin/bash" in Terminator. I commented out /dev/pts in /etc/fstab following
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the problem did not go away. I decided to reboot After which the computer boots only to a grub prompt.
I'm posting this after booting with a linuxmint USB stick so Ihave access to the / partition on the laptop.
I've been on systemd for a while now. However I now suspect that I was not fully migrated to systemd. I did do a pacman -R initscripts during the latest upgrade.
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Last edited by emk (2013-09-02 03:22:05)

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I removed the following files
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I boot via systemd though I suspect now I was not fully migrated.
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total 21258
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14869898 Sep 2 00:25 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3010076 Sep 2 00:25 initramfs-linux.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 21 2011 kernel26-fallback.img -> initramfs-linux-fallback.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 21 2011 kernel26.img -> initramfs-linux.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 May 11 2010 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 2 00:28 syslinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 21 2011 vmlinuz26 -> vmlinuz-linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3783360 Aug 30 09:33 vmlinuz-linux
mint e3beb7a9-4c88-4688-8a2d-a00946489a3f #
4. You are probably right. I have both grub 0.97 and grub 2 in the pacman pkg cache
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============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Syslinux MBR (4.04 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> Syslinux MBR (4.04 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
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Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
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Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
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Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
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Boot files: /bootmgr /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
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sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: SYSLINUX 4.04 2011-04-18
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/dev/sda2 718,848 155,650,047 154,931,200 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 155,650,048 228,614,143 72,964,096 83 Linux
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
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237 heads, 1 sectors/track, 63714 cylinders, total 15100224 sectors
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/dev/sdb1 * 2,048 15,099,903 15,097,856 b W95 FAT32
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
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/dev/loop0 squashfs
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/dev/sda2 7044B3C644B38CFA ntfs
/dev/sda3 31df11a9-14a7-44f7-80c9-763ee40106c5 ext4 LFS Partition
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/dev/sdb1 /cdrom vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
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# D-I config version 2.0
include menu.cfg
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?? = ?? syslinux/chain.c32 1
?? = ?? syslinux/gfxboot.c32 1
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syslinux/chain.c32 : COM32R module (v4.xx)
syslinux/gfxboot.c32 : COM32R module (v4.xx)
syslinux/vesamenu.c32 : COM32R module (v4.xx)
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I'm installing Arch with CD on a laptop. It has only 1 hard disk, no partition.
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