Hi,
On 03.05.2007 10:36, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Marcus Dillury wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry if this is to the wrong list.
>>
>> I recently installed Open Solaris Nevada b55 on my home PC with Solaris
>> and Windows on separate disks. The solaris install worked well, however
>> I've not been able to boot into Windows Xp from Grub. Booting into
>> solaris works fine. The only way I can boot into windows is to adjust
>> the boot priority of the hard disks in the BIOS, which by-passes grub.
>>
>> My system has 2 SATA disks - Channel 2 & 3. XP is installed on the
>> channel 2 disk while solaris is installed on the channel 3 disk.
>>
>> The device definitions in grub are correct - as far as I know.
>> The menu.lst configuration for grub is.
>> Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
>> When selecting this menu option within grub, the screen goes blank for a
>> couple of seconds before going back into the grub menu.
>>
>> I'm not that familiar with grub, so I'm not aware of any debugging
>> options.
>> Has anyone had any similar issues when running Solaris and Windows on
>> separate disks?
>>
>
> Did you add a second disk later ? If yes then Bios drive mappings change
> and can confuse the OS on the earlier disk, which appears to be WinXP in
> your case.
>
> You can use the map directive in Grub to try to remap the drives.
> Something
> like this:
>
> Windows
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
Adding "makeactive" would make sense. If that doesn't help: Instead of
repeating the cycle "try to boot XP, boot Solaris, edit menu.lst, start
over" you might be better off with editing the entries manually at the grub
prompt (e) or just to use the grub shell (c), followed by the commands
above and a final "boot".
Cheers,
Dirk
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Cheers, Marcus
>>
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>> views of Crane Group
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