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 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
