[install-discuss] Re: Re: Grub Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory

[Moinak Ghosh]

Randall Q. Huxley III wrote:
> Greetings to you moinakg. Thank you very much for your post, it seems you understand this quite well.
>
> I downloaded Solaris Express from Solaris.com and burned ISO CDs from it. I don't understand what I have to do to implement your fix.
>
> Is it possible to change these ISO images directly or do I need to build Solaris from source?
>   

   No need to build from source. You can generate a modified ISO
   image. What I mentioned was that multiboot is gone in Build 57
   so you can try to install that when it is available.

   If you do not want to wait I can send you a modified multiboot
   binary in an off-list mail. You can then recreate the Solaris Express
   ISO image having the modified multiboot binary via the following
   steps. All the following assumes you are using a DVD. If you are
   using CD images then you need to only apply these steps to rebuild
   the first CDROM ISO image.

   1) Take a note of the mkisofs command used to create the DVD. The 
following command
   will print the mkisofs options:

   cat solarisdvd.iso | strings | grep mkisofs

   It will be something like:
   mkisofs 2.01 -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -c .catalog -no-emul-boot 
-boot-load-size 4
   -boot-info-table -relaxed-filenames -l -ldots -r -N -d -D -V SOL_11_X86
   -o .../solarisdvd.iso .../solarisdvd.product

   2) Now mount the ISO image:

   lofiadm -a /path/to/solarisdvd.iso
   mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/<Number> /mnt

   3) Dump the ISO contents elsewhere:

   cd /mnt
   find . | cpio -pdum /some/directory/newdvd

   4) Now replace /some/directory/newdvd/boot/multiboot with the 
modified binary

   5) Re-generate the DVD image using the mkisofs options. For as per 
aboveer

   cd /some/directory/
   mkisofs -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -c .catalog -no-emul-boot 
-boot-load-size 4
   -boot-info-table -relaxed-filenames -l -ldots -r -N -d -D -V SOL_11_X86
   -o newdvd.iso  newdvd

   Now you can burn the image and try it out with fingers crossed!

Regards,
Moinak.

> Thank you.
>
> Rand
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