On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 12:17 -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: > I edited the menu.lst in /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst to boot Linuxes on > other partitions,the > entries appear on the menu,but when I choose them GRUB does not find > the path to the > file(kernel) and gives a warning.The same entries worked normally when > the Ubuntu Linux > GRUB was in command,perhaps it is a problem OpenSolaris GRUB not > knowing about > the UUID and needs the old style identifier for the partitions? > Here are the entries I pasted on menu.lst : > > title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic > uuid 470b556b-d040-4686-8e23-8be27db9d414 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic > root=UUID=470b556b-d040-4686-8e23-8be27db9d414 ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic > quiet > > title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic > uuid f4d782d0-3195-497d-a4e5-63510be12454 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic > root=UUID=f4d782d0-3195-497d-a4e5-63510be12454 ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic > quiet > > title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic (on /dev/sda3) > root (hd0,2) > uuid 2e17afc4-0933-48d6-bcae-fd9a4afd35cb > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic > root=UUID=2e17afc4-0933-48d6-bcae-fd9a4afd35cb ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-15-generic > quiet > > >
I took the opposite approach and used Ubuntu's grub. My OpenSolaris is on the second disk. During installation I installed OpenSolaris's grub on the second disk. Then in my Ubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst I chainload to OpenSolaris: title OpenSolaris root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 BTW, I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 beta on another partition and let it write over my MBR with grub2. Under grub 2 I added menuentry "OpenSolaris" { set root=(hd1,1) chainloader +1 } to /etc/grub.d/40_custom, then ran sudo update-grub. (Note that grub2 numbers partitions from 1, not 0. Sigh.) Bob