Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
Glenn Lagasse wrote: Whichever disk is the 'master' disk. By that I mean, whatever disk is listed to boot first in the bios (which is where all the other bootloaders installed to). Fine - so disable the other drives and install onto a dedicated drive, and then re-enable the others. James ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
Thanks a lot Waynel!...:) I appreciate your response to my query...I will try your suggestion of editing the GRUB menu.lst file and adding a chainloader entry pointing to Solaris installation on the 3rd HD and the subsequent steps amd see how it goes. Thanks again for your help! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
Thanks Glagasse for your response...I appreciate! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
Glenn Lagasse wrote: The OpenSolaris installation will overwrite your existing Grub in the MBR. Yes - but on which disk? If there are three hard drives and each has just one OS, surely you just go into the BIOS and disable the drives except the target one, then do an install 'as if' the only drive, and then do the chainloader trick described elsewhere? I installed Vista first into one drive, then OpenSolaris and then Ubuntu onto partitions on a second drive. I use OpenSolaris as my master boot manager and chainload to the Vista drive or boot Linux from GRUB. James ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
Thank you for reading my post. I was wondering if any member of this forum can help me with the following query: I have an Intel system (desktop) with three HDDs having dual-boot configuration...with Windows 2003 Server on the first hard-disk, Ubuntu Linux on the second third HD being blank as of now. My bootloader is GRUB and I have been thinking of installing OpenSolaris on the last remaining drive. I am in a quandry as to if I go ahead with OpenSolaris installation, will Solaris' default bootloader overwrite the existing GRUB render my system useless...;) or is it that during installation Solaris will give me option for going on with the existing bootloader...I am just confused and want to make sure that I understand things in this regard before proceeding ahead. Do you think that adding an entry corresponding to OpenSolaris on 3rd HDD in GRUB's menu.lst file will be sufficient after I have completed the installation. Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
* Joomla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thank you for reading my post. I was wondering if any member of this forum can help me with the following query: I have an Intel system (desktop) with three HDDs having dual-boot configuration...with Windows 2003 Server on the first hard-disk, Ubuntu Linux on the second third HD being blank as of now. My bootloader is GRUB and I have been thinking of installing OpenSolaris on the last remaining drive. I am in a quandry as to if I go ahead with OpenSolaris installation, will Solaris' default bootloader overwrite the existing GRUB render my system useless...;) or is it that during installation Solaris will give me option for going on with the existing bootloader...I am just confused and want to make sure that I understand things in this regard before proceeding ahead. The OpenSolaris installation will overwrite your existing Grub in the MBR. Do you think that adding an entry corresponding to OpenSolaris on 3rd HDD in GRUB's menu.lst file will be sufficient after I have completed the installation. No, because last I knew Grub as shipped by most linux distro's doesn't understand how to boot Solaris. However, the Grub that ships with OpenSolaris does understand how to boot Linux (though you have to add the entries to menu.lst manually). Cheers, Glenn ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS
At the present time, Solaris installation will overwrite your MBR. You can edit and use your /boot/grub/menu.lst file in Solaris to add chainloader(s) to boot into Windows (already created) and Linux (to be created by you). But if you want to keep your Linux version of the GRUB, one of the easiest tricks that I have been using is to follow the following procedure: 1. While in Linux before installing Solaris, edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to add a chainloader to the partition in which Solaris is to be installed, title Solaris root (hd0,2) chainloader +1 (the above entry assumes that Solaris is to be installed into the third primary partition) 2. Copy the Master Boot Record to a particular directory in your USB stick (say, /media/usb/mbr_linux): # dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/usb/mbr_linux bs=512 count=1 3. After installing and booting into Solaris, copy this file back to MBR: # dd if=/media/usb/mbrsuse of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 4. Do a reboot, the Ubuntu GRUB boot screen will show up, you can then boot into either Solaris or Ubuntu (or Windows). Thank you for reading my post. I was wondering if any member of this forum can help me with the following query: I have an Intel system (desktop) with three HDDs having dual-boot configuration...with Windows 2003 Server on the first hard-disk, Ubuntu Linux on the second third HD being blank as of now. My bootloader is GRUB and I have been thinking of installing OpenSolaris on the last remaining drive. I am in a quandry as to if I go ahead with OpenSolaris installation, will Solaris' default bootloader overwrite the existing GRUB render my system useless...;) or is it that during installation Solaris will give me option for going on with the existing bootloader...I am just confused and want to make sure that I understand things in this regard before proceeding ahead. Do you think that adding an entry corresponding to OpenSolaris on 3rd HDD in GRUB's menu.lst file will be sufficient after I have completed the installation. Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
