02-24-2006
I had the same problem too (among many others), I wish that I actually knew what it was that I did to get it to be able to boot up in the CDE mode.
On the machine that I installed it on, I had Windows XP, so much for a dual boot machine, but XP was expendable (no pun intended).
After I changed the XP partition from NTFS to FAT32, the machine hung, so I re-booted and hit ESC during the boot process. I had forgotten to take CD 1 out of the drive, and all of a sudden it started to load Solaris, go figure?
I was then able to install the rest of the disks, reboot and was given a selection screen to load CDE or command line. I'm not sure if this information is of any help, but I feel your pain. Hopefully someone with more experience can help you out.
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
/sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device
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-f
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-m
Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.
The installgrub command accepts the following operands:
stage1
The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.
stage2
The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.
raw-device
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Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice
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Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy
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