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Solaris Win Xp Dual Boot !!!! Plz Help........!!!!

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by pcrkishan

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Hi All ,

I am new to solaris & i would like to explore it to taste a flavour of
Unix.

Before I installed I did a lot of googling as I did not want to play
with the data i have on win XP & finally installed Solaris in a dual
mode option along with Win XP.

These are the steps i followed,

1) Using partition magic, I created 20 GB free space in my Win Xp
SP2 running on NTFS system.Made that 20 GB partition as
Primary.The C:\ having Win XP is set as Primary (Active).

2) Rebooted the system with Solaris DVD inside the
drive.Successfully followed Sun's docs for installation.

3)Identified the 20GB partition ,F-Disk first asked me to delete it &
then re create it again.

4)The 20 GB got formatted & then the Solaris OS got installed
100%.

Finally It rebooted.I took out the DVD from the drive.

5) I was happy to see the Grub bootloader recognising both Solaris
and also Windows.

6)Anxiously I selected Windows to see whether everything is fine.I
was happy that nothing got affected in Win XP.

7)Rebooted the comp again.Now selected Solaris x86 ( 1st option ).

8) Unfortunately after some initial startup commands I got the foll
messg

"An out of Sync boot archieve was detected on
/dev/dsk/c1doso.Do you wish to automatically Update this boot
archive" ?

For this i followed this doc from Sun,

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/6n4m1vlfi?l=ru&
a=view#gcbof

I followed it successfully but still it didnt help me.It works till step
6 on the above sun doc link provided.

It searches for "installed OS instances.........." & then begins to give
a series of commands ,then came the console log in session &
then it automatically tried to boot up the Solaris OS.

A series of dots( ............... ) followed giving the impression that the

kernel is going to load, but after a few secs it just gives out an

impression like its frozen (hanged up).A series of multi coloured

pink stripes appears on top of monitor & there after nothing

happens.........

Before the installation was about to begin I just left all those

screens where it asked for slice,root,extended home etc to the

default values as suggested by the OS.Also i also came across

screens such as Xorg for which i didnt change anything and jus

kept accepting the choice given by the OS.I also followed the

installation link below as it is,

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/installation
howto.jsp

What 's the mistake i do here ?????

Do i have to log into windows Xp & then using Partition Magic,

Should I also make the partition where Solaris is installed as

Primary ( ACTIVE PARTITION ) .Is this possible?

I also followed the below given links,

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/6n4m1vlfi?l=ru&
a=view#gcbof

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/6n4m1vlfg?l=ru&
a=view

But it didnt fix my problem.The docs helped me to know some of

the tech things about solaris which is good but right now my

concern is I want to look at the screen of this wonderful OS & I

would like to fix the problem without tampering my Win Xp

which by God's grace seems not disturbed by this installation

process till now.

Are there any special commands i need to enter to modify any

value ??? . If so I can try them with some help......

Am not very familiar with such commands & also under
this Solaris console environment.

So plz provide me step by step assistance so that this helps to fix

my issue.

Any help is greatly Appreciated.

Thanx & Regards,

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by kmdennis

You may need to post the exact error messages in order for you to get help from the pros. Or you may want to also try the Solaris/Linux user groups who may be much more familiar with what is going on. Seems like you have a corupt boot partition. Try this:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5q0?a=view

Do you ever get to the login prompt for solaris? Typically there is a log which will tell exactly what is causing the problem. I suspect it may the display drivers, but you have not given any indication of the other error messages. I am new to linux/Solaris OS also and have had issues like that and just reinstalled with different options and especially the Display\Video options are very significant. BTW, what version of Solaris did you install? Hope you get some help soon. I know the frustration.

by pcrkishan

Hi,
Thanx for the reply.......

I get the Grub menu displaying Solaris along with Win Xp....After i select Solaris the following happens,

"Failed to initialize inband hotplug controller"

The above messg repeats three times & i get the "hostname console login"

After i login when the system tries to boot up the GUI screen the following happens,

There is a black screen with pink stripes on top....After this nothing happens.

The system just freezes up.

Is there any solution for this without reformatting & reinstalling the OS ???

Plz Help.

by kmdennis

Did you check out the article? You may want to go into the bios of that computer and disable hotplug features. >>This message is displayed because the hardware or BIOS reports the slot as hotplug capable, but the platform has no hotplug support.<<

by pcrkishan

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.........I tried to diasble hotplug features( I disabled USB ports in the Bios ).But even then i get stuck after login....I dont know why it happens as am new to Solaris..... & I also read that article given in your link.It was helpful & even i tried those steps to successfully recover a corrupt boot archive.But even that didnt fix the problem. I did a bit of googling & found threads with similar issues,

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5209748&messageID=9856374

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5187910

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=864&threadID=5089131

In one of the thread the user has tried to change the video frequency ,After that he got an error & he used kdmconfig -u & kdmconfig-c & he has changed from xserver to xsun & rebooted.

But i dont know how to tweak those settings in a command prompt environment in Solaris 10.

Maybe should i select "Solaris failsafe" option in the grub bootloader & after i get the "starting shell #" should i try these commands ????

I dont want to reformat & re-install the OS!!!

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.......!!!

Thanx & Regards.

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