I have a Dell Dimension 4600 P 4 2.8 G 1 G Ram It has a 80 G IDE HD with Windows XP and I put a 160 G SATA HD in and installed Linux (w/swap) and then Opensolaris (So OpenSolaris's grub would be installed). 2009.06 . The 160 G was 50G Linux - 4 G swap - bal OpenSolaris - I even changed the swap partition to a type 83 (linux) partition before install - as I have seen issues with that. When the install finishes I reboot and hit F12 on the Dell to choose to boot from the SATA HD. It gives me a bad pbr error.
I CAN boot to it if I go into BIOS and disable the IDE HD Also just to test - I booted to a USB formatted the whole 160 G as ntfs then re installed OpenSolaris to the whole HD. The same problem bad pbr error on booting. So it is some how related to BIOS HD setup I have searched all over for an answer that works and not found any - I MUST be missing it - I have to feel there are others with 2 HD's and installing OpenSolaris to the 2nd one. I have found a lot of posts and links to bad pbr and even a page or 2 that have reinstalling grub details. I almost wonder about a swap command in grub - anyone ever try that? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
