Hi Angus, I would be glad to help you get Windows booted.
If the root (hd0,... entry works for Solaris then presumably Win XP is on hd1. Try the following in /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst title Windows XP root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 Let me know if this works for you. Vikram ----- Original Message ---- From: angus <an...@mypcsorted.co.uk> To: install-discuss at opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:58:10 PM Subject: [install-discuss] general newbie woes Well the live cd looked nice so I added a hard disk to my cheapo Acer dual core duo e4500 machine that has 1 gig ram and windows xp pro on the first hard drive and went for the install. It installed very easily, though Grub installed on the new drive not the xp drive and my attempts thus far to edit /rpool/boot/menu.lst to get xp to boot have been unsucessful. according to xp its installed on hd1 and the new ide drive is hd0, with solaris installed on the first partition of hd0. there's a small system partition before the c: drive on hd1 so presumeably windows should be: title windows xp root (hd1,1) other posters mention: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) but its hard to see how to make an intelligent substitution in my case :( The other gripe is with nwam. The live cd totally failed to find the network with DHCP which just about every other os I have ever tried finds first go; freebsd, debian, slackware, ubuntu , knoppix live cds all find the net pretty quickly. Even now its installed it won't find the network automagically. Anyway I thought lets do it the 'hard' way and learned how to disable nwam with: svcadm disable network/physical:nwam and then used the gnome network applet to configure rge0 my onboard realtek rtl8168 network card. I've tried static ips, added dns but still I can't even ping the gateway (linksys broadband router) - keeps saying 127.0.0.1 host is unreachable. netstat -rn only shows what localhost is up to. I then tried getting it to use DHCP, again to no avail. The marketing comment about OpenSolaris being what Ubuntu wants to be when It grows up is ringing rather hollow... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list install-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20080806/14f317e3/attachment.html>
