[zillah]

I have two Hard disk on Primary master I installed windows (XP and 2003).

On the Primary Slave I installed FC4 and Mandrake 10, and Solaris on hdb1




Now the bootloader is FC4, when I chose the Solaris form the menu of grub bootloader , Solaris does not boot directly it has to go through many blue screen


1- First screen titled: “Solaris Device Configuration Assistant”,,,,,,,,,F2 to continue.


2- Second screen titled : “Loading escd.rf…”,,,,,,,,,Enter to continue


3- Third screen titled: “Identified Device Boot Solaris”.

Select one of the identified devices to boot the Solaris kernel and choose continue.

[ x ] Disk : Target1: WDC40 0BB-00DEA



Eventually I can boot solaris successfully.

A- Is this issue related to FC4 bootloader and solaris bootloader ?

B- What should the right entry be for Solaris within the bootloader file ?

[root@2[knoppix]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1913        2294     3068415    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3            2295        4865    20651557+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        1216     9765472+  bf  Solaris
/dev/hdb2            1216        1581     2929752    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb3            1582        4865    26378730    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5            1582        1607      208813+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6            1608        2754     9213246   83  Linux
/dev/hdb7            2755        2787      265041   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb8            2788        2816      232911   83  Linux
/dev/hdb9            2817        2854      305203+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb10           2855        4865    16153326   83  Linux
root@2[knoppix]#






   cfdisk 2.12p

                                                   Disk Drive: /dev/hda
                                             Size: 40016019456 bytes, 40.0 GB
                                   Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 4865

      Name              Flags             Part Type       FS Type                   [Label]               Size (MB)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      hda1              Boot               Primary        NTFS                      []                     15726.74
      hda2                                 Primary        W95 FAT32 (LBA)                                   3142.06
      hda3                                 Primary        NTFS                      []                     21147.20





     cfdisk 2.12p

                                                   Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
                                             Size: 40020664320 bytes, 40.0 GB
                                   Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 4865

      Name              Flags             Part Type       FS Type                   [Label]               Size (MB)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      hdb1              Boot               Primary        Solaris                                           9999.88       *
      hdb2                                 Primary        W95 FAT32 (LBA)                                   3000.07       *
                                           Pri/Log        Free Space                                           4.23       *
      hdb5                                 Logical        Linux ext3                [/boot]                  213.86
      hdb6                                 Logical        Linux ext3                [/]                     9434.40
      hdb7                                 Logical        Linux swap / Solaris                               271.44
      hdb8                                 Logical        Linux ext3                                         238.54
      hdb9                                 Logical        Linux swap / Solaris                               312.57
      hdb10                                Logical        Linux ext3                                       16541.04

[tsunam]

Should just be a simple

title=solaris
rootnoverify(hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

if it comes up with that menu every time..it seems to be thinking that you have new hardware every time you start up..perhaps something isn't configured correctly?

[zillah]

Should just be a simple

title=solaris
rootnoverify(hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I have got that, but still same problem.

[zillah]

What I did , I installed fresh copy of Solaris 10 (1/06 support GRUB),when I used Solaris CD1,and when CD has installed every thing , the system rebooted , I have not touch Linux Bootloader which resides into MBR, I configured Linux Bootlodaer to point to Solaris partition [hdb1 or (hd1,0)].

When I tried to boot solaris I have seen Solaris's GRUB, then i received this error message:

Booting 'Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86'

root (hd0,0,a)

Error 22: No Such partition

Press any key to continue

Note: Still I have not installed Solaris CD2, 3,4

What should I do to fix the boot loade problem?

[zillah]

I am not sure if the erro above is similar to the one below:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatab...bug_id=6372042

[saikee]

The latest Solaris Express uses Grub and your problem should disappear.

Can't remember exactly how I did mine but I don't think Solaris 10 boot directly without going into a couple of its own screen.

By the way it appears the Grub version in Solaris Express does not seem to be 100% compatible with the Linux version if booted directly as it uses a 3rd parameter forthe root partition like

root (hd0,3,a)

It boots successfully by chainloading just like a Linux though.

[zillah]

The latest Solaris Express uses Grub and your problem should disappear.

The Solaris that I have used is (1/06 support GRUB as well), I think it is similar to Solaris Express,,,,,Am I right ?

What I did , I installed fresh copy of Solaris 10 (1/06 support GRUB),

[saikee]

Don't know exactly the difference between Solaris 10 and Solaris Express myself but the latter is newer and uses Grub as the boot loader! The installer actually gives you a Grub menu at the very beginning.