On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:55 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > Hi All, > > I get the following when choosing to boot Linux from the Solaris10 boot > menu, > > "Bad PBR sig" > > I'm guessing PBR stands for Primary Boot Record, yes..? What's required > to repair this.? Section (9.35) on this page, »www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html > is it related to my issue.? Little outa me depth here on this. Cheers. > > Mark Sargent. > Hi Mark, In order to get Solaris 10 working with Linux, you cannot have any Linux swap partitions as primary partitions. They have the same ID# as a Solaris partition so one or both of the OSes flip out. At one point I was triple-booting between FC4, FreeBSD, and Solaris 10. This was my partition scheme (if my memory serves me right): /dev/hda1: Linux root partition /dev/hda2: FreeBSD (uses its own sub-partitioning scheme) /dev/hda3: Solaris (see above) /dev/hda5: (extended partition) /dev/hda6: Linux Swap /dev/hda7: Linux home partition To do this, I booted with a FC4 install disk, then manually partitioned the disk using fdisk from one of the virtual terminals. Without installing Linux, I rebooted and put Solaris on (since you don't have an option to not install its bootloader). Once Solaris was up and running, I put FreeBSD on, then finally Linux. You can use a chainloader command for both FreeBSD and Solaris in the grub boot menu. Let me know if you need more details. Aloha, -- Chris Stark Musician, Linux User, & Grad Student http://chrisstark.com/
