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Bad PBR sig
Name: Murali Date: July 19, 2002 at 03:14:59 Pacific
Comment:
Dear All, Please help me, I installed solaris 8 on intel platform and when I reboot it is showing bad PBR sig.Although I can boot from Cdrom and start solaris successfully. It is having only one partition and it is active ( solaris partition). It is getting lost its default boot device if i restart solaris. Please help me .. thankz in advance.
Name: Das FX Date: July 19, 2002 at 05:47:53 Pacific
Reply:
The best way to avoid that is to mke sure that the boot partition (usually 3 if you have linux and windows installed or 2 if only windows or linux is installed) made active. One of the best tools if you have it laying around is a windows bootdisk... boot up with that, run fdisk, and make sure that the solaris BOOT partition is made active and not any other partition including the slaris root partition. This should help you avoid that pesky PBR Bad Sig bug...
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Response Number 2
Name: Murali Date: July 19, 2002 at 21:43:33 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks a lot Mr. Das Fx... well I do try today and let u know ..anyways...Thaanks very much
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Response Number 3
Name: cq Date: August 29, 2002 at 20:58:01 Pacific
Reply:
I get another problem
after i see "bad pbr sig",i give up intalling solaris and begin to install windows
but i can not reboot from hard disk ,and the ide read and write is wrong everytime. i guess the motherboard has some problem
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