Hello, I am interested in installing 3 OS on my machine, which is x86_64. I looked at the following article frpm bigadmion: Multi-Booting the Solaris 10 OS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows on a Laptop Ifeyinwa Okoye, December 2005 http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/multiboot_laptop.html
My machine is a desktop and not a laptop, but this seems to make no difference. I did as was said there. I copied the 3 lines of menu.lst of linux (as mentioned in section 7 ) to the solaris /boot/grub/menu.lst. Than I tried to boot into linux and I got a panic. Booting into solaris is OK. (Solaris latest SXCR is installed on that machine). There is a little difference between menu.lst of linux from the article to the menu.lst I have in linux. This is because on my linux FC5 , therer is a use of devmapper and VolGroup. It could be that this cause the panic; I am looking for a solution to this problem. Here are the 3 lines of menu.lst from Linux FC5: (I copied the to menu.lst of solaris). root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img the panic message I get when booting into linux (from the solaris boot partition, after the menu.lst of solaris is displayed and I choose the linux entry which I had entered,as described above) is : .... Reading all physical volumes.This may take a while... No volume groups found. Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00" Unable to access resource device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' ... kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init (The same panic message I get when trying rootnoverify (hd0,1) instead of rootverify (hd0,1) ). I looked for other solutions and I saw some suggestions to use chainloader (in fact windows is booted by using a chianloader in menu.lst). So I tried using chainloader (I'm not sure if I was right in doing so and about the details of using chanloader). Also this attempts did not bear success. Any ideas what is the right way to be able to boot linux from solaris in such a case ? Regards, Ian Brown This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
