On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM, kunal ghosh<kunal.t2 at gmail.com> wrote: > I've been trying to install belenix and opensolaris 2008.11 on bare metal > without luck, both behave similarly. > They both finish installing and give the message of successful installation. > When i reboot the grub is installed properly in both cases, but when i > select to load the operating system, i get the following error in both. > findroot (rpool_pool,0,a) not found. //The actual message may be slightly > different > My HDD partitions look as follows > hd0,0----linux swap----2.5GB > hd0,1----ext3 ubuntu--39.8GB > hd0,2----belenix/OSOL-----20GB > hd0,3----ext3 backup partition---179GB > How do i rectify this problem ? >
That Linux swap is the problem. Earlier Linux swap and Solaris partitions had the same ID (0x82) so they clashed. Later A new partition ID 0xbf (called Solaris2) was identified for Solaris. But for backward compatibility the kernel still identifies either 0x82 or 0xbf as Solaris partitions. So you have a clash since Linux swap comes before the Solaris partition. Annoyingly the Solaris kernel ignores the partition number it receives from GRUB and rescans MBR finding linux swap and getting confused. it is OK is linux swap cmoes after a Solaris partition. You can use some GRUB tricks to hide the Linux swap partition while booting. For the hd0,1 ubuntu boot entry add the following line just after the "title" line for Ubuntu: parttype (hd0,0) 0x82 Add the following line just after the "title" line for BeleniX: parttype (hd0,0) 0xff This essentially changes the partition type of linux swap while booting BeleniX so that it is not recognized and changes it back when booting Ubuntu. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
