Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS

2008-04-27 Thread James Mansion
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS

2008-04-23 Thread Joomla
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS

2008-04-23 Thread Joomla
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

2008-04-23 Thread James Mansion
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

[osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS

2008-04-22 Thread Joomla
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS

2008-04-22 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Triple Boot with OpenSolaris as 3rd OS

2008-04-22 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
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