I was impressed with Belenix 0.6.1 and decided to install it to the
hdd. The entire hdinstaller process went smoothly, until i rebooted
the system. the grub entry does not boot up, and this error shows up

multiboot is longer used to boot the Solaris Operating System
The Grub entry should be changed to:
kernel$ /platform/i86/pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
See http://www.sun.com/msg/SUNOS-8000-AK for details.
Press any key to reboot

i edited the grub entry as instructed and then i got this error.

Booting Command-list
root (hd0,0,a)
Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xbf
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
loading '/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix'...
cpu: 'GenuineIntel' family 15 model 2 step 9
amd64: CPU does NOT support long mode
amd64: CPU does NOT support amd64 executables.
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
loading '/platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive' ...

Error 20: Multiboot kernel must be loaded before modules

Press any key to continue...

i then spent considerable time searching the net, and (notably) found
this one entry:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/2007-July/000145.html
i read through the whole post and tried every possible combination

root (hd0,0,a)
kernel$ /platform/i86/pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86/pc/kernel/unix
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /platform/i86/pc/multiboot kernel/unix
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

root (hd0,0,a)
kernel$ /platform/i86/pc/kernel/unix
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

and every other possible combination... :( with no success.

then i decided to try the grub command line, and here is what i got:

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
 (hd0,0,a)
grub> root (hd0,0,a)
Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xbf
grub>kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix
[Multiboot-elf, <0xc00000:0x4dd2:0x8ac2>, shtab=0xc0e1e0,
entry=0xc00000]           //what does this mean?
grub>module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
grub>boot

pressing any key reboots the system, as i expected.
is there any solution to this problem? im not comfortable with using
an operating system from a LiveCD. I like my OS to be installed on the
hdd. I have no other OS at the moment as i dedicated the entire disk
to BeleniX. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Solaris is simple. It takes a genius to understand it's simplicity.
                                    - Anon
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't
realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
                                     - Calvin.
Cheers,
Vedang.

B.E. Computer Engineering,
P.I.C.T Pune.
http://blogs.sun.com/vedang
http://dose-of-wisdom.blogspot.com
http://tech-rantings.blogspot.com

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