[SunHELP] solaris 4/01 intel

Kevin Stevens sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 9 02:12:26 CDT 2001


On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Maitrik N. Patel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i recently purchased solaris 8 4/01 for intel. I have win2k on primary
> partition, and tried to install solaris by creating another partition (same
> hd) during installation. When it went thru and installed all the packages
> and rebooted, i got "bad pbr sig" error, and the system was halted. I tried
> to troubleshoot it by making the solaris partition auto boot that slice
> instead of win2k, but i got the same results 'bad pbr sig'. I tried to read
> post of the people who had similar problems but they were all different, as
> they were had linux installed and/or they were installing it on another hd.
> I'm trying to install solaris on the same hd as my windows 2k partition.
> Any suggestions of how i can fix this 'bad pbr sig' ??
>
>
> thanks a lot in advance
> mpatel

If this is a Pentium 4 processor you need the 07/01 version, or to do a
net install of the patched 04/01...

KeS




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