> Does this technique of using the Neogrub bootloader > and EasyBCD from Vista work with OpenSolaris May > release (Indiana)?
It's not something I've tried. I really would of liked to have both Indiana and Nevada installed and multi-booting with Vista but both the respective Solaris installers only allowed the 1 Solaris partition as a target on a single hard drive. For moment Nevada is installed natively and Indiana is in VBox under Vista. All the installing between Nevada and Indiana broke Vista on 2 occasions where I needed to recover using the Vista DVD - I ended up choosing just one to get to a stable platform. > When booting directly to the Windows bootloader (bypassing > Solaris GRUB), I can launch either XP or Vista. So, > I'm looking for some way to chainload the solaris > grub from the vista bootload in order to keep XP > compatibility. I would of thought EasyBCD would work because the chainloader simply passed the boot process across to the Solaris partition which invokes GRUB... > I briefly tried using EasyBCD, but selecting the add > "Linux" option and pointing it to my Solaris > partition didn't do the trick. I'm thinking it may > have to do with whatever was done involving ZFS boot > on Indiana, maybe the different location of the > menu.lst file? I think, somehow, Neogrub is trying to > load GRUB from the wrong place. Either that, or it > just plain doesn't understand ZFS and won't work > period. With the EasyBCD NeoSmart Linux loader, I select Solaris from the Vista boot menu. This immediately then boots up the Solaris GRUB bootloader which at this point behaves exactly if Solaris/GRUB were the active partition. From this I can boot B88, xVM, Failsafe or even back to Vista (just for fun, I can keep swapping between both boot menus!) Re ZFS, I haven't tried it so can't comment. Thing is I briefly tried the NeoGRUB using the Solaris menu.lst and it didn't work. T he NeoSmart Linux loader worked first time so I stuck with that. > Any insight would be greatly appreciated! I've been > messing around with partitions and reinstalling > various operating systems for a few days now, so > finally getting this resolved would be great! My > configuration is as follows: > > 0,0: OpenSolaris > 0,1: Ubuntu linux > 1,0: Win XP > 1,1: Win Vista How did you go? Cheers, JP This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
