Shawn Walker wrote: > On 19/06/07, James Mansion <james at mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: >> Managed to get the install done eventually. Its blown away the grub >> that Feisty put down >> without asking me where I wanted its grub to go, but that might be >> expected I suppose. >> Would be nice if it had asked or made it easier to select (maybe I >> missed something?) > > It would have to anyway since other versions of GRUB don't know how to > boot Solaris right now. So, there isn't much point in asking really > other than to be nice I suppose. The changes needed to GRUB haven't > been integrated upstream yet as far as I know (though the source code > is available). > I don't think that's an entirely convincing answer. I can boot Vista from grub using the chainloader functionality. My understanding is that I could chain from an arbitrary non-Solaris-aware grub to the Solaris partition with its own grub. It just needs to be told to be polite and not trash the mbr.
Its reasonable for it to point out that I'll have to tweak the existing boot setup to boot the just-installed system, but if I choose this option then presumably its because I know what I want. > > Some of the bugs you encounter are the result of using a developer > build, others are simply that right now, Solaris supports specific > hardware configurations well and others not as well. > Indeed - isn't this the right forum to report issues? No point my sitting here grumbling quietly into my beer. Isn't the idea of public testing to try a richer variety of systems? James
