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# 1  
Old 10-22-2007
no VTOC problem
I am using Solaris 10. I restart it today because it halts during working.
When i restart it then there is nothing. No Operating system found. I try to boot from Solaris 10 CD but it shows a single disk but there were two operating systems Solaris 10 and windows Xp. There is now only on complete partition having size equal to complete disk. Iry to boot Solaris 10 from CD but it shows

"no VTOC"

problem.
please help me..
# 2  
Old 10-22-2007
You've probably lost the MBR on your disk. If you have any backups, try restoring them... otherwise you might be losing your data here.
# 3  
Old 10-22-2007
I've used SuperGrub before to rebuild my mbr, but that was with linux and windows. Don't know if it would work with Solaris, but I don't see why not.
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