agreed, I copied same content to a text file today when I saw it! -Michelle
Blake wrote: > This might make a good HOWTO (I'm moving in the next few weeks, so I > personally can't tackle it for about a month). > > Blake > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: * Tao* <taof at cs.okstate.edu <mailto:taof at cs.okstate.edu>> > Date: Jul 13, 2007 11:52 AM > Subject: [osol-help] Problem solved > To: opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > <mailto:opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org> > > I got my vista back last night. Thank you all for your great help! no > matter directly and indirectly. I really appreciate it. > > Here is what happened when I dual booted my system with solaris > developer express edition on vista: two partitions on the same disk, > one has vista, one has solaris, BIOS boot to MBR, MBR found GRUB from > its table, then GRUB found solaris OS from the solaris partition, but > CAN NOT recognize vista. This resulted vista can not be reached > anymore even though its partition is intact. Somebody said that GRUB > from Linux can still recognize vista, but not solaris, definitely > Solaris shoud fix this bug. > > Here is how to fix it: bypassing GRUB. I noticed that there are lot of > cases like mine happened on dual booting, so I listed the steps as > follow, hoping that this can be some kind of help. > > 1. changed boot order to boot from CD/DVD. > 2. use vista anytime upgrade DVD to boot my system. > 3. entered into the vista recover environment (RE), selected the > language and wanted repare the system option. > 4. I didn't see any operating system listed in the window. so, just > click next. > 5. tried to use the first choise to fix the windows boot problem > automatically, but after a few second, it reported that it failed. > 6. select the commond line opention and started DOS, I can see my c > disk and all the files are still there. > 7. TYPE diskpart, then select the partition where my vista is on, and > type active ( it was not active) . This is very important, becasue by > doing this, the MBR table changed its active partition entry from the > solaris partition to vista partition, then when BIOS boot to MBR, MBR > directly point to vista partition. Thus GRUB will not be touched at > this point. > 7. then type bootrec /fixboot, bootrec fixMBR it reported that the > problem is fixed. > 8. reboot my system, and enter the vista recovery environment, and > this time the vista shown up in the list. select that and click next, > vista automatically detected there is a booting problem and asked me > do I want to proceed to let vista fix the problem, say yes and then > vista reported that problem is fixed, reboot my system, and vista came > back. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org <mailto:opensolaris-help at > opensolaris.org> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org
