Solaris 10 on Toshiba P15 S420 laptop
Hi all,
Here is my problem...
1) Installed Solaris 10 on my laptop as the only OS, worked fine..
2) Created two partitions on my HDD - 30 GB and 50 GB
a) Installed WINXP on the first ( 30 GB ) partition
b) Installed Solaris 10 on Second Partition ( 50 GB )
Now when I reboot after installation and choose to boot Solaris from the GRUB menu.. I get the following messages
WARNING : Cannot find /etc/mnttab
WARNING: Cannot find /etc/svc/volatile
and then the screen just scrolling rapidly with some unreadable error messages for ever...
I can't imagine why this woudl happen.. Please help me!!!
# 1
couple of questions to help figure this out.
1. Can you boot into WinXP from GRUB ?
2. Can you boot into Solaris safe mode ?
I suspect the MBR still points to set up that you had when you installed *only* solaris your system. If that's the case then you will need the CD/DVD that you used to install to get you into the miniroot (assuming that the same problem exists with safemode boot) and update the MBR by using installgrub.
# 2
Hi Nebulous,
Yes, I can still boot into good old WinXP..
and When I try the Solaris Safe mode, it tries to look for OS Instances and doesn't find one and puts me in the the miniroot loaded on the ramdisk:a..
Please help me out on this.... My final goal is to have Solaris 10 installed on an external HDD connected through USB and be able to boot either from the USB drive or the laptop's internal HDD.
regards,
KHK
