How to Make Solaris 10 Partition Bootable

Solaris 10 uses GRUB loader options to make the system partition bootable.

Solaris 10 partition is the location of the Solaris ZFS file system and logical volume manager that are used to boot the Solaris operating system. Solaris 10 uses the GRUB program as its boot loader. The partition entries of the GRUB configuration file contain options that allow system administrators to make a partition bootable. You must specify the boot block and system core and choose the options for the boot loader program in order to make Solaris 10 partition bootable.

Instructions

1. Click on the "xterm" icon on the Solaris 10 taskbar to open the command line console.

2. Enter "installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0" in the command line window.

3. Click the "OK" button to specify the location of Solaris 10 partition boot block.

4. Enter "setenv boot-device /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0."

5. Click the "OK" button to update the Solaris boot configuration.

6. Enter "boot" and click the "File," "Save" and then "OK" to make Solaris 10 partition bootable.

References

• HCCFL.edu: Unix/Linux Disk Partitioning Guide
• HCCFL.edu: Some Brief Notes on Solaris 10 Disk Layout
• Oracle; GRUB and the Solaris 10 1/06 OS: The New Bootloader for x86 Platforms; Shudong Zhou and Jan Setje-Eiler; December 2005
• Oracle: x86: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
• Solaris: ZFS Troubleshooting Guide

Resources

• Linux Partition HOWTO