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Old 07-07-2005, 02:33 AM   #1
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Windows and FC3 and Solaris---and only Solaris boot error message


I have got no problem to boot any of these OSs (Windows, FC3, Solaris), on my laptop, after two days from installation , I tried to boot into Solaris, I could not, and I received this error message:

(( Boot Solaris

rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

cannot find solaris partition)).

I checked fdisk -l the output was:

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1276 1339 514080 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 1340 2614 10237248 af Unknown
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 2615 4864 18073125 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2615 3506 7164958+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 3507 4462 7679038+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 4463 4527 522081 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 4528 4718 1534176 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 4719 4864 1172713+ 83 Linux


When I installed FC3 and Solaris 10 again from scratch, and I checked fdisk -l again the output was:

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1276 1339 514080 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 1340 2614 10237248 bf Unknown
/dev/hda4 2615 4864 18073125 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2615 3506 7164958+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 3507 4462 7679038+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 4463 4527 522081 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 4528 4718 1534176 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 4719 4864 1172713+ 83 Linux
 
Old 07-07-2005, 10:17 PM   #2
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According to the Solaris release notes (Or bug notes) Solaris has problems in x86 architectures with HDD with more than 65,535 cylinders. This is what I found
 
  


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