--- Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote: > mohamed yusuf wrote: > > I have been trying to multiboot centos 4.1 and the > > current solaris express build 15. I have two hard > > drive s, the first one ( hd0 ) devoted to CentOS > 4.1 > > and windows xp (no problems). The second drive > (hd1) > > for Solaris 10 only. I tried to boot solaris from > > CentOS grub and got the following error messages: > > > > Booting Solaris 10 > > root(hd1,0) > > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0Xbf > > kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot > > Error 17: can not mount selected partition > > press any key to continue.... > > Grub knows how to read BSD UFS type of file system, > but I'm not sure > about Solaris file system. Solaris UFS is basically > BSD UFS with some > extra stuff. You said you were able to boot it > before. Some of the > reasons for failure could be: > > - wrong partition type > - logging enabled on Solaris UFS > - different version of Solaris UFS > - Solaris kernel stored outside of BIOS > addressable disk area > > Also, I'm not sure if you want to have makeactive > and chainloader > options if Grub is loading kernel directly. I have taken out makeactive and chainloader + no success > One thing to check is how disk is organized. I > remember that Solaris > likes to have an partition for itself, install > Solaris disklabel onto > it, and then sub-partition it into 8 partitions (so > basically you get > partitions inside partitions, something like > extended partition in > DOS/Windows). Somehow I doubt Grub would be able to > read that. > If you simply can't make Grub to mount Solaris > partition, and load the > kernel, your best bet would be installing Solaris > boot loader onto first > partition of second disk, and using similar > configuration as for booting > Windows XP. Something along the lines: I installed solaris boot loader on it own pratition ( hd1,0)and got the same result. The only thing I have not tried is booting CentOs from Solaris boot loader ( reverse) > title Solaris 10 > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks Aleksandar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com