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Solaris 8 on Intel Platform

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by dreaded mahn 1 view

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I am attempting to install Solaris 8 on my desktop pc (intel platform). However, the insatllation is cancelled after devices are identified. It gives an error message:

"The root file system is not mounted and the configuration assistant has exited prematurely. Booting is unlikely to succeed."

I press (ctrl + d) to continue anyway, and it comes up wiht:

"Cannot load root file system"

My hdd is partioned in two, windows xp and the other half set aside for Solaris.

What seems to be the problem?

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by cpfeiffe

I don't know how you are partitioned other than that the disk is divided in two, but most likely your problem is that the boot block for Solaris needs to be within the first ? GB of the disk. I say ? because I'm not sure myself. I think it is 2 GB or 8 GB. There is a book that comes with PQ Magic that lists where the location of the boot sectors for various operating systems must be. Windows is not a problem with W2K and newer so I would suggest that you install Solaris on the first half of the disk and Windows on the second half. Good luck.

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