alan pae wrote: > Installed Windows XP Professional > > Installed Solaris build 91. > > During the install it sets the Windows partition to unknown but shows the > correct partition size. > Changed the Windows partition from unknown to PRI DOS. > > You probably shouldn't have done this. 'unknown' means that the installer doesn't know what the current partition id (that the windows installer assigned that partition) means. By setting it to "PRI DOS" you asked the installer to change the ID. > Install Solaris build 91. > > After the installation it shows Solaris and Solaris Failsafe but not Windows. > > Modify the menu.lst file to add Windows. > > The Windows partition is now empty. > > This is probably because the windows installer doesn't create a primary dos partition. It (by default) creates an NTFS partition.
If you hadn't changed the partition ID in the Solaris installer, then after you added Windows to the menu.lst file, Windows proably would have worked fine. > Load up gparted to take a look and gparted shows both Windows and Solaris > build 91 as unknown. > If you used gparted to change the windows partition ID back to NTFS the Windows install probably would have started working again. > Will re-install Windows and set the Solaris partition active again which will > hopefully solve the problem but has anyone else seen this? > > That should also fix the problem, since the windows installer will setup the partition ID to NTFS again and reformat the partition. You may need to use the dvd to boot into solaris, and get GRUB to reinstall it's boot block in the MBR also. -Kyle > thanks, > alan > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
