[osol-discuss] Re: [ug-bosug] Problem with dual booting thumper

[Pavan Chandrashekar - Sun Microsystems]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Atul Vidwansa wrote:

> Thumper is booted into linux. When I try to boot it in Solaris using
> PXEBOOT, I get following error:
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 14 4F 20 CE 09  GUID: FFFFFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF
> FFFFFFFFFFFF PXE-E53: No boot filename received
> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. Bad PBR sig
>

I hope you have a boot server in the subnet, which is configured to 
service this client.

~p
> -Atul
>
> On 5/3/07, Yousuf <Mohammed.Yousuf at sun.com> wrote:
>> Hi Atul,
>> 
>> Being at the grub prompt you can make solaris partition active. or you
>> can try using fdisk or other tool that can help you do that and try
>> booting into solaris.
>> 
>> -Yousuf
>> 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:
>> >
>> > [root at thumper ~]# 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:
>> >
>> > [root at thumper ~]# 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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>
>
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> Atul Vidwansa
> Cluster File Systems Inc.
> http://www.clusterfs.com
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