On 19/06/07, James Mansion <james at mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 19/06/07, James Mansion <james at mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote: > >> Managed to get the install done eventually. Its blown away the grub > >> that Feisty put down > >> without asking me where I wanted its grub to go, but that might be > >> expected I suppose. > >> Would be nice if it had asked or made it easier to select (maybe I > >> missed something?) > > > > It would have to anyway since other versions of GRUB don't know how to > > boot Solaris right now. So, there isn't much point in asking really > > other than to be nice I suppose. The changes needed to GRUB haven't > > been integrated upstream yet as far as I know (though the source code > > is available). > > > I don't think that's an entirely convincing answer. I can boot Vista > from grub using > the chainloader functionality. My understanding is that I could chain from > an arbitrary non-Solaris-aware grub to the Solaris partition with its own > grub. It just needs to be told to be polite and not trash the mbr.
Correct, I never said that it could not. I merely pointed out that right now, the behaviour is not wholly incorrect. > Its reasonable for it to point out that I'll have to tweak the existing boot > setup to boot the just-installed system, but if I choose this option then > presumably its because I know what I want. Solaris historically was intended to be the sole operating system installed, and the current installation process still reflects that choice. Hence why it also still requires a primary partition, etc. and so on. > > > > Some of the bugs you encounter are the result of using a developer > > build, others are simply that right now, Solaris supports specific > > hardware configurations well and others not as well. > > > > Indeed - isn't this the right forum to report issues? No point my > sitting here grumbling quietly into my beer. Isn't the idea of public > testing to try a richer variety of systems? You should not misconstrue my reply as an attempt to discourage your post. But rather, as an attempt to point what many others already have -- that this is a work in progress and posting redundant comments about areas that already being addressed may not be the most productive. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
