Could you post your entire menu.lst so we can see the context?
It would also help if you could list your partition table.



On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:30:16PM -0700, Ian Brown wrote:
> Hello,
>   I am interested in installing 3 OS on my machine, which is x86_64.
> I looked at the following article frpm bigadmion:
> Multi-Booting the Solaris 10 OS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows on a Laptop
> Ifeyinwa Okoye, December 2005
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/multiboot_laptop.html
> 
> My machine is a desktop and not a laptop, but this seems to make no 
> difference.
> 
> I did as was said there.
> I copied the 3 lines of menu.lst of linux (as mentioned in section 7 ) to the 
> solaris /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> 
> Than I tried to boot into linux and I got a panic.
> Booting into solaris is OK. (Solaris latest SXCR is installed on that 
> machine).
> There is a little difference between menu.lst of linux from the article to 
> the menu.lst 
> I have in linux. This is because on my linux FC5 , therer is a use of 
> devmapper and
> VolGroup. It could be that this cause the panic; I am looking for a solution 
> to this 
> problem.
> 
> Here are the 3 lines of menu.lst from Linux FC5: (I copied the to menu.lst of 
> solaris).
> 
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
> 
> the panic message I get when booting into linux (from the solaris boot 
> partition, after the 
> menu.lst of solaris is displayed and I choose the linux entry which I had 
> entered,as 
> described above) is :
> 
> ....
> Reading all physical volumes.This may take a while...
> No volume groups found.
> Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
> Unable to access resource device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> ...
> kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
> 
> (The same panic message I get when trying rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> instead of rootverify (hd0,1) ).
> 
> I looked for other solutions and I saw some suggestions to use chainloader 
> (in fact 
> windows is booted by using a chianloader in menu.lst).
> 
> So I tried using chainloader (I'm not sure if I was right in doing so and 
> about the 
> details of using chanloader). Also this attempts did not bear success.
> 
> Any ideas what is the right way to be able to boot linux from solaris in such 
> a case ? 
> 
> Regards,
> Ian Brown
>  
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