Solaris 10 x86: fallback option in GRUB's menu.lst

From: Ilya Voronin (ivoronin@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 18:14:41 EDT


I tried to set up GRUB for booting from a second disk in case of
primary disk failure.
Here is my menu.lst:

--- >8 ---
default 0
title Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86 (hd0)
 root (hd0,0,a)
 kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
 module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
 fallback 1
title Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86 (hd1)
 root (hd1,0,a)
 kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
 module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
 fallback 0
--- 8< ---
(hd0,0,a and hd1,0,a are both parts of SVM root mirror).

The error message is displayed during boot:
-- 8<--
Booting 'Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86 (hd0)'
 root (hd0,0,a)
Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0x000000bf
 kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
[Multiboot-elf, <0x1000000:0x13a73:0x1290d>, shtab=0x1027258, entry=0x1000000]
 module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
[Multiboot-module @ 0x1034000, 0x3d3b800 bytes]
 fallback 1
Error 27: Unrecognized command
Press any key to continue...
--- >8 ---

Does GRUB included with Solaris 10 1/06 support 'fallback' option? It
is mentioned
in grub documentation.

-- 
Ilya Voronin <ivoronin@gmail.com>
http://ivoronin.blogspot.com
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