Sure and there are several other ways too as additional "truths."
But probably what I wrote to him is the most painless to recover from the problem he was having esp. in his configuration. Ienup Robert W. Fuller <garbageout at SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > Ienup Sung wrote: > >>Don't add "makeactive" since it will, as you know, make Windows to boot >>all the time. To recover from this, from Windows, run fdisk and select > > > This is not always true. It depends on WHERE you install GRUB. If you > install > GRUB as the master boot record (MBR), then regardless of what partition is > marked active, GRUB will always run at boot. However, if you installed GRUB > in > a partition and left the old WinDOwS boot program in the MBR, then it will > pass > control to the boot sector in whatever partition is marked "active." > Personally, I prefer to install GRUB in the MBR and mark the partition active > for WinDOwS and whatever other OS behaves more rationally in an "active" > partition. > > >>the Solaris partition as the active partition. Exit Windows and reboot. >>The grub will show up. Boot solaris, remove the "makeactive" from >>the menu.lst and your system will be fine. > > > Or, as I've suggested above, leave menu.lst the same and install GRUB in the > MBR > rather than a partition. > > Rob
