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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# 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:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# 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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