(branch from "Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%") On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 17:46 -0500, Greg Palmer wrote: > You always have to install Solaris after the Linux and copy the grub > menu from Linux into the Solaris grub menu. Linux grub doesn't > understand zfs and the Solaris installer doesn't speak ext2 and ext3 so > it doesn't copy over the existing menu. The team working on ext3 for > OpenSolaris just released a package with alpha support for it. I > downloaded it but haven't gotten around to installing it so far so I'm > not sure how well it works... >
Well, I tried that and could not get it to work. I read some place that OS's grub has problems with UUID numbers; e.g., my Ubuntu entry is: title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic uuid 6a68fbe5-ff89-4fd1-9f1c-d2f8c164bb5b kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=6a68fbe5-ff89-4fd1-9f1c-d2f8c164bb5b ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic quiet So I reinstalled the Ubuntu bootloader and use: title OpenSolaris root (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1 boot in my Unbuntu menu.lst to get to OpenSolaris. It now works. :-) I did use: root (hd0,0) in my menu.lst under OS. Now that I look at it, I probably should have also used makeactive Perhaps I will reinstall OS's bootloader and try again dual booting through OS's grub. On the other hand, "if it ain't broken, ...." Bob
