Hi All, I am new to Solaris and trying to experience Solaris OS. I downloaded Solaris software and installed it on X86 box. I completed the initial setup and when I reboot the system, I was getting the error "Bad PBR sig" and the system got freezed. After finding for a solution on google, I found out that the problem was with the PROFILE file under Custom Jumpstart configuration. I am trying to understand what exactly this file performs and the paramemters that are configured in that file.

How did you install your Solaris 10? Jumpstart or CD/DVD? The solution that you speak of is caused by using Jumpstart profile for Sparc on x86 system.

Have you looked at this forum?
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thre...617&tstart=165

Also, check if your hardware is supported by Solaris 10:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html

-gibb

Hi, I am using DVD to install Solaris. Steps I have followed:

I boot my system from dvd and started text-based installation and when it came to partition layout, I first opted for custom layout and when the Profile page came, I customized it since I wanted some disk space not to be used so that I can create slices from it. At the end of the installation, I rebooted the system and I got the error "BAD PBR Sig" and the system freezed. I then started looking for a solution and I came across these 2 links which were talking about Profile.

http://blog.mc-thias.org/?title=bad-...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

http://www.computing.net/answers/sol...-sig/2082.html

I remember that during the installation, I came across profile section. got point 36 in the following URL
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/...ationhowto.jsp

I thought since I customized hardware, I am finding issues. Next time I again started installation procedure and didnot customize hardware and it worked this time. The whole problem is with profile.

It actually can't, given the fact you didn't use a custom jumpstart in the first place.