Karen Tung wrote: > I didn't do exactly what you want with booting 4 OSs. I was able to > successfully install and boot > 3 different OSs on my Lenovo R61 laptop a couple weeks ago. > > First, I shrink down the factory default Vista partition, and made it > all unallocated space. > Then, I installed Solaris. Lastly, I installed Fedora 8. I tried first > installing FC8, then, Solaris. > That doesn't work, because Solaris at this time can only handle 4 > partitions, and if I installed > FC8 before Solaris, all the 4 partitions are already occupied. The > trick is that when you install > FC8, specify to NOT install its grub loader from FC. You want to use > the Solaris grub. > After you install FC8, boot into Solaris and modify the grub menu to > boot FC8.
Just to clarify, it isn't Solaris that can't support more than 4 (primary) partitions. That's an artifact of the X86 architecture. You can only have 4 'primary' partitions on a disk, you can get around this by making one of the 4 an extended partition (giving you 3 primary, 1 extended and however many pseudo-extended partitions you can fit into the extended primary space). Solaris can not be installed into an extended partition but Linux distributions can (generally). With that said, I would set things up thusly: 1st primary partition Vista 2nd primary partition Solaris Express 3rd primary partition extended rest of disk And then install fedora and ubuntu into extended partitions. I would install Solaris last (as mentioned previously) and use grub in Solaris to boot everything. Cheers, Glenn
