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#1 (**permalink**) 05-07-2008, 06:19 PM

Dear All

when I installed solaris in new hdd, its completed the
installation and gives the error Bad PBR sig error

but if I install the RHEL-5 and then Install the solaris
its working . so pls help for the same.

#2 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 01:56 PM

In article <e5c3062e-131f-46a4-9406-cc441cd233b5@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
niraj_vara <niraj.vara@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear All
>
> when I installed solaris in new hdd, its completed the
> installation and gives the error Bad PBR sig error
>
> but if I install the RHEL-5 and then Install the solaris
> its working . so pls help for the same.

Sounds like a disk geometry issue. It means the MBR has loaded
the first sector from the active partition ready to pass
control to it, but found it's not a PBR, i.e. the partition
doesn't appear to start on the sector it thinks it should.

The fdisk partition editor built into the installer is known
to be rather flaky in this respect. I suggest you shell out
of the installer early on and use the standard Solaris fdisk
to create the Solaris partition (or any other OS's fdisk
which knows how to create a Solaris partition). If there's
already a Solaris partition there and you don't change it in
the installer, it will use it as-is.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

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