I've been using Vista x64 with OpenSolaris B70 and above without any issues. It's not an issue with booting so much now, it's a partitioning issue, Vista seems to confuse the BIOS geometry. So far the only OS that fails completely at dealing with the partitions is FreeBSD. If you can partition the disk in half first with FreeBSD, backing up the boot sector, with some luck it can be used with bootmgr in Vista. In the OpenSolaris and Linux case, Grub handles it fine now, granted the OS doesn't improperly modify the mbr or Vista booter on its own partition.
James On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:21 PM, shaun wrote: >> Mike DeMarco wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> One more Question: Are the core Duo's Full 64bit >> and able to run dual boot Solaris and Windows XP pro? >>> >> >> Yes. On multiple brand of Core2Duo laptops, we are >> dual and tripple booting >> Solaris, Vista, Win XP, Linux. >> >> (Vista has it's own specially engineered annoyances >> as a futile attempt >> to keep people from adding extra OS types to the >> hardware. But alas, >> M$ failed at that also. It's a little extra work, >> but you can "adjust" the >> vista partition to play nice with Solaris and Linux. >> There are blogs >> bout it, or others on this list will share how M$ >> tried to mis-align >> vista partitions so that every third party partition >> program on the market >> would fail, complaining about overlapping partitions. >> But again, that >> an be dealt with.) >> > > i have solaris, slackware, slamd and vista on my laptop using grub > on the solaris partition to boot all of them without any problem, > my vista is 32 bit though. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
