Dear Gregg,
Thanks for your reply. But My problem didnt solved still.
As suggested, I have put the Opensolaris CD and boot the system,
It gave me the Options
Opensolaris..
Opensolairs text console..
Boot from the hard disk.
If I click on Boot from hard disk option,
It is again giving me the option for only Windows XP to choose.
I am afarid that whether opensolaris is there in my hard disk or not.
pls help me in finding out the solution..
Thanks,
By
Vidhya
Regarding Dual Boot Setup
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 4:49 PM
To: OpenSolaris ? help
Reply
Dear all,
I have my laptop installed with Windows XP. Then I have installed opensolaris.
I was able to see both XP and opensolaris in the GRUB menu. but if i click to
boot the windows it displayed an Error:11-Unrecognized data string. And i
searched in many forums and i have found a solution. That is i need to edit as
rootnoverify(hd0,0) which was rootnoverify(hd0) previously.
But it became only a temporary solution,Everytime while booting i need to give
this command. Then again i searched and found that make active command will
resolve the issue. so i have added a line as
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
But now XP became my default OS. It is not prompting for opensolaris. can
anyone help me in finding out the solution..
gsporar
Posts: 3
From: Austin, TX
Registered: 2/4/08
Re: [osol-help] Regarding Dual Boot Setup
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 8:04 PM in response to: vs46961
Reply
>But it became only a temporary solution,Everytime while booting i need
to give this command.
Right, that's because editing the entry during boot time only affects
that boot. Your changes are not saved.
>make active command will resolve the issue.
Yes, but as you have seen, at a high price: the GRUB menu is no longer
being displayed. Instead, as you noted, the system always boots into
Windows XP.
I would suggest the following:
1. Boot the LiveCD but do not re-install OpenSolaris. All you need to
do is make the partition on which OpenSolaris was installed active
again. You can do that using the fdisk command; take a look at this
blog entry:
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/triple_boot_part_3_install. It
provides an example of how to use "pfexec format -e" in order to run fdisk.
2. Reboot from the hard drive. You should see the GRUB selection menu
again.
3. Select OpenSolaris. After it boots, edit the file
/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst (you can use this command: "pfexec gedit
/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst"). Make the change that you need to the
rootnoverify entry for Windows XP and then save the file. Do not add
the "makeactive" entry.
4. Reboot again and select Windows XP.
HTH,
Gregg
vidhya wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have my laptop installed with Windows XP. Then I have installed
> opensolaris. I was able to see both XP and opensolaris in the GRUB menu. but
> if i click to boot the windows it displayed an Error:11-Unrecognized data
> string. And i searched in many forums and i have found a solution. That is i
> need to edit as rootnoverify(hd0,0) which was rootnoverify(hd0) previously.
>
> But it became only a temporary solution,Everytime while booting i need to
> give this command. Then again i searched and found that make active command
> will resolve the issue. so i have added a line as
>
> rootnoverify(hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> But now XP became my default OS. It is not prompting for opensolaris. can
> anyone help me in finding out the solution..
>
>
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