Hi Curt,
Curt Rebelein, Junior wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a new install. Upon reboot the system hangs on "Bad
> PBR Sig". I can boot in single user mode via the install disk and mount the
> freshly installed software (I'm even asked if I'd like to mount the system
> a@/a during boot). Everything appears to be just fine.
>
Which Solaris edition/build did you use for installation ("Solaris
Express Developer edition 9/07"
or "Solaris Express build 73") ?
Which path in GRUB did you select ("Solaris Express Developer Edition"
or "Solaris Express") ?
Did you use whole disk c0d0 for Solaris or did you create other
partitions (e.g. by means of
fdisk) before you started Solaris installation ?
> What I have tried thus far...
>
> - Boot into single user mode and issue `dd bs=512 count=16 if=/dev/null
> of=/dev/rdsk/c0d0` in an attempt to wipe the partition table. I then
> reinstalled and was welcomed w/"Bad PBR Sig"
>
> - Boot into single user mode and issue `/a/sbin/installgrub -m
> /a/boot/grub/stage1 /a/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0` and reboot. I'm
> then greeted with "GRUB", and the system hangs (I am unable to do/type
> anything at this point, hard reboot required).
>
> - Boot into single user mode and wipe the drive clean via format, relabel,
> and reinstall (emulate a brand new drive?). Again, "Bad PBR Sig".
>
> - Boot into single user mode and issue `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0d0`
> and reinstall. Again, "Bad PBR Sig".
>
> - A combination of the above. The best I've managed thus far is "GRUB".
>
When you boot from DVD media into GRUB, is it possible to "chainload"
Solaris GRUB installed in Solaris partition ?
For example:
[1] boot from DVD
[2] when in GRUB, press 'c'
grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0) <----- change according to your configuration
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot
> The hardware that I've been trying this in consists of a dual P3 700MhZ w/1G
> RAM, 2 PATA 80GB drives (c0d0 and c0d1) and a DVD ROM (secondary master).
> Both of hard drives are ones that I had left over from an old Linux software
> RAID that were working just fine when removed. Both drives are configured in
> LBA mode in the system BIOS and I'm using c0d0 as the boot disk for both the
> BIOS and Solaris installer (AFAIK)
>
> I also had this issue in a newer system (P4 3.0GhZ w/4GB RAM) using a single
> 20GB PATA drive that previously had Linux installed on it. I eventually got
> that working but I do not recall exactly what worked of the several things
> that I tried.
>
> Per Google, it appears that this isn't a very common issue and, thus far, no
> "silver bullet" to fix the issue has been identified. Any ideas?
>
Currently, there are couple of bugs relating to installgrub. One that
might be source of your problems is
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6581184
But it would only encounter if you were Linux swap partition before
Solaris one dedicated for installation.
The other installgrub known issues can be seen at
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/search.do?process=1&category=&subcategory=&bugStatus=&type=bug&keyword=&bugId=&textSearch=installgrub&since=&perPage=10&sortBy=relevance&maxResults=10&startIndex=1&sortBy=relevance
Best regards,
Jan
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