Hi, I have exactly the same bad PBR sig issue reported by Holf back in Feb. I've run in vmware many funny things including VxWorks but a brand-new Solaris 9 x86 DOES NOT WANT TO BOOT. I am running VmWare 3.1 on NT 4.0 (I don't think VmWare is the problem), I am installing Solaris 9 from the CD ISO image directly and all is nice and smooth, including the first auto-reboot after the first phase of the installation. Mind you - at that stage it looks like 2 partitions are bootable (a small x86 boot one and a bigger Solaris one). After this initial reboot I get a menu to select where to boot from - I select CDE and it boots fine, ends the installation and I get a bare-bones CDE with an xterm. At this stage I "halt" and the 2'nd reboot no longer asks me which partition to boot and fails with "bad PBR sig". I check with fdisk and I see that the first "small X86 boot" partition is marked A. I make "A" the big Solaris partition and reboot - same "bad PBR sig". Have you been able to find the explanation and workaround? Thanks for any clue Marian

INSTALLING SOLARIS 9 INTEL EDITION ON VMWARE WORKSTATION 4.0 ============================================================ HARDWARE Processor : Pentium 4 1.8GHz with 512kB L2 Cache RAM : 256MB PC133 SDRAM Motherboard : Asus P4S533-MX Hard Disk : Samsung 20GB ATA100 5400rpm OPERATING SYSTEM windows XP Professional Build 2600 with SP1 Service Pack Solaris 9 (04/03) Download version, 3 CD Set. Procedure 1) Start Solaris 9 Installation from the Second CD, NOT the First CD 2)Install Solaris 9 OS as a Guest OS in VMWare 3)Log in to Solaris 9 as root 4) Download following files from http://www.camberwind.com/solaris http://www.camberwind.com/solaris/SUNWxf86u_4.2.0_vmware_sol9x86.pkg.bz2 http://www.camberwind.com/solaris/SUNWxf86r_4.2.0_vmware_sol9x86.pkg and copy these in a temporary folder in your Solaris 9 5) Uncompress SUNWxf86u_4.2.0_vmware_sol9x86.pkg.bz2 by running this command bzip2 -d SUNWxf86u_4.2.0_vmware_sol9x86.pkg.bz2 6) Run the following command in Solaris 9 to install the above packages pkgadd -d SUNWxf86u_4.2.0_vmware_sol9x86.pkg pkgadd -d SUNWxf86r_4.2.0_vmware_sol9x86.pkg 7)Run kdmconfig in command line mode in Solaris 9 8) Select XFree86 VMware driver as the Display card, this should be at the bottom of the list 9)Select Appropriate Monitor, resolution and Color depth. Test your Installation, if you dont see the test screen try a different monitor and / or resolution