Installation guide

The Linux Partition Does Not Display on the GRUB
Menu After Installing the Solaris OS (6508647)
If Linux is installed on your disk and you installed the Solaris OS on a separate partition, the
Linux partition does not display on the GRUB menu. No error message is displayed.
Workaround: Edit the GRUB menu's menu.lst le to add Linux to the GRUB menu. Perform
the following steps:
1. Boot the Solaris OS.
2. Edit the menu.lst le at /boot/grub/menu.lst. For more information, see the System
Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
x86: Install Hangs on Systems With 512 Mbyte of
Memory (6423854)
Installations can run out of memory and hang on 512-Mbyte systems under the following
conditions:
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You install using a network installation image of the OS.
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The Solaris installation program is in a windowing environment:
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The graphical user interface (GUI).
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The -text option or “3. Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)” in the menu below.
When the system exhausts available memory, the GUI installation process slows and eventually
fails. The text does not display in a windowing environment.
Workaround:
To avoid this problem, select a non-windowing environment during the initial installation
startup. During startup from the installation media the following menu is displayed:
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1. Solaris Interactive (default)
2. Custom JumpStart
3. Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)
4. Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)
5. Apply driver updates
6. Single user shell
Enter the number of your choice.
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Installation Bugs
Chapter 1 • Installation Issues 35