Hi Rick, OpenSolaris 2008.05 installer doesn't install GRUB into disk MBR (sector 0). It installs GRUB into Solaris partition and marks that partition "active" after installation is done.
It works fine when you install on drive selected as boot device in BIOS. But GRUB is not loaded, if it is installed on non-boot device. I think you could try to workaround this in following ways: [1] Shrink the XP partition on 1st drive and install 2008.05 on that 1st drive. [2] Chainload GRUB bootloader on 2nd disk using Windows ntldr boot loader. The instructions might be for example found at http://www.vsubhash.com/writeups/multiboot_os.asp http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html [3] Try to interchange 1st and 2nd drive (by switching the cables), so that BIOS boots from the one you would like to use for installing Solaris. However, then Solaris would probably need to be reinstalled - I am not sure about Windows instances. Thank you, Jan Rick Cromi wrote: > Jan, > > Thanks for the response. > > My Dell OptiPlex GX620 does not give me the option of setting another hard > drive as the boot drive. The only options are to enable/disable existing > devices and change boot order. Existing devices are floppy, CD-ROM and SATA > hard drive. There is no specification as to which hard drive. > > But wouldn't GRUB be installed on drive 0, partition 0? > All other boot loaders I've encountered do this because the machine starts > the loader on drive 0, partition 0 after the diagnostics are completed. > > TIA > Rick > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
