I have the 10/01 IA release of solaris. I have tried every possible combination of partitions, solaris first or last partition, with or without x86 boot partition, install windows before or after, etc. MY windows won't install on any partition but the first (cylinder 1 - ?). when I install solaris on a second partition, everything goes fine until boot (bad PBR sig). I've read about possible bugs and "fixes", i.e. make bootpath /.../cmdk@0,0:q[,raw] (q points to my solaris partition), use installboot, have devfsadm clean up a bit. . . so far nothing works. oh, and when i leave out the x86 boot partition, the installer catches sig 11. if I install solaris alone on a disk (which I may do anyway or buy a sparc for solaris) there are no problems. Hope someone can help! MRitchie

i do have 3 OS in 1 harddisk im telling u the way as i did make the first partion non dos for solaris and make the second partion for windows by formatting the partion from bootable 98 cd and thorugh this way my all os working properly no error and no bug at all try in this way

I have win2k and Solaris on 1 disk. How I did was, install win2k in the first partition and make the 2nd partition unused/unavailable to win2k (used admin tools computer management). Then install solaris by creating new partition.

hi friends i have done dual boot between windows xp & Sun solaris 8 intel platform 1)Create primary partition on which u can install Win95/win98/winnt/winxp 2)keep some partition for sun soalris,don't make any partition on free space of hdd 3)format the primary partition with dos or install from bootable cd for winNT or XP. Then installed win98/win95/winnt/winxp 4)after installation of win98/95/nt/xp ,boot ur system from sun solaris cd make partition on rest of free space as u want for sun solaris O.S. select partition as solaris & make it as active then take default values for swap partition & follow with next instruction .from this u can do dual boot with sun solaris & windows Reply me on my email address for any problems

Hi, Let me tell you what I have done. I had installed Windows 98 on the primary partition. I also had the extended partition. I backed up all the data from the extended partition and then deleted the extended partition. Now I have only one partition on my harddisk ie primary. Now, when I try to install Solaris by booting from the CD I am getting "cannot find boot.bin" error message. What should I do to overcome this problem. Can anybody help me. Regards, Suraj.k

When i install sunsolaris and windows nt on same x86 m/c., the error "THIS IS NOT A VALID UFS FILE SYSTEM" comes. Why it came?.

Sometimes third-party Partition Management software and other disk utilities might create problems. Prepartitioning may lead into troubles when incompatible fdisk or format utility is used. Cleaning a disk (including master boot record) prior installation is a good habit, especially when you make additional space by getting rid of previous installations of WinNT/XP, Linux. Otherwise the installation of Solaris fails. When Solaris will be installed along with another OS, it is better (not necessarily though) to create a Solaris partition prior Solaris installation. This is due to specific CHS geometry translation used in Solaris. (Use only the Solaris’s fdisk.) Solaris 7 and earlier can access up to first 1024 cylinders (8GB) on IDE/ATA hard disks, but there is a limitation also for Solaris 8 on some machines with old BIOS: Solaris 8 partition must begin (not necessarily ends) within the first 1024 cylinders. Patches for bad sectors, also other disk fitness utilities by harddrive manufacturers do not work on UFS, and might only create additional problems with Solaris installation, as bad sectors itself.