Try this, unless you have forgot to install the Solaaris boot loader
on your second hard drive. Yes this was a problem for mee too, the new
Solaris Grub fails to recognize ext3 partitions.
--Anand
title Solaris 10
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
title Windows xp
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
On 7/7/05, mohamed yusuf <myusuf32@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> --- Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > mohamed yusuf wrote:
> > > I have been trying to multiboot centos 4.1 and the
> > > current solaris express build 15. I have two hard
> > > drive s, the first one ( hd0 ) devoted to CentOS
> > 4.1
> > > and windows xp (no problems). The second drive
> > (hd1)
> > > for Solaris 10 only. I tried to boot solaris from
> > > CentOS grub and got the following error messages:
> > >
> > > Booting Solaris 10
> > > root(hd1,0)
> > > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0Xbf
> > > kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
> > > Error 17: can not mount selected partition
> > > press any key to continue....
> >
> > Grub knows how to read BSD UFS type of file system,
> > but I'm not sure
> > about Solaris file system. Solaris UFS is basically
> > BSD UFS with some
> > extra stuff. You said you were able to boot it
> > before. Some of the
> > reasons for failure could be:
> >
> > - wrong partition type
> > - logging enabled on Solaris UFS
> > - different version of Solaris UFS
> > - Solaris kernel stored outside of BIOS
> > addressable disk area
> >
> > Also, I'm not sure if you want to have makeactive
> > and chainloader
> > options if Grub is loading kernel directly.
>
> I have taken out makeactive and chainloader + no
> success
>
> > One thing to check is how disk is organized. I
> > remember that Solaris
> > likes to have an partition for itself, install
> > Solaris disklabel onto
> > it, and then sub-partition it into 8 partitions (so
> > basically you get
> > partitions inside partitions, something like
> > extended partition in
> > DOS/Windows). Somehow I doubt Grub would be able to
> > read that.
>
> > If you simply can't make Grub to mount Solaris
> > partition, and load the
> > kernel, your best bet would be installing Solaris
> > boot loader onto first
> > partition of second disk, and using similar
> > configuration as for booting
> > Windows XP. Something along the lines:
>
> I installed solaris boot loader on it own pratition (
> hd1,0)and got the same result. The only thing I have
> not tried is booting CentOs from Solaris boot loader (
> reverse)
>
> > title Solaris 10
> > rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> > chainloader +1
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> Thanks Aleksandar
>
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