On Thu, 3 May 2007, Atul Vidwansa wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to dual boot thumper in Linux and Solaris. I have
installed Solaris on one of the disks of thumper. The problem is, once
I boot the box in Linux, it refuses to go back to Solaris. Now on
Linux, I could identify the Solaris disk and fdisk shows me following:
As I understand your problem, you are using the linux grub to boot
solaris. Is that correct? And,What version of solaris are you running?
The reason I ask is that if you are using any of the later versions of
solaris, you could always boot linux from the solaris boot loader.
If not, you need to set the boot device in linux grub and then chainload.
If you can provide the contents of your menu.lst/grub.conf (only the
relevant parts), the solution will be easier to provide.
~p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk /dev/sdx
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdx: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdx1 * 2 60801 488376000 bf Solaris
But, whenever I try to boot it into Solaris, I get error "Bad PBR
sig!!!". I tried to check whether this disk has boot record:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd if=/dev/sdx count=2 | strings
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
M3.0
Can't read geometryNo active partitionCan't read PBRBad PBR sig!!!LBACHS
Looks like even though the disk is marked bootable, it does not have
any active partition?
Is there any way to restore Solaris without reinstalling it?
Cheers,
-Atul
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Atul Vidwansa
Cluster File Systems Inc.
http://www.clusterfs.com
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