> 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 :(
Reboot the machine and once grub loads up, press "c" to get a command line, then: geometry (hd0) and geometry (hd1) and post the output here. This will tell us exactly what partitions are where. > 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. Try this: pfexec route add default 192.168.1.250 Replacing 192.168.1.250 with the IP address of your router. To make it stick on reboot, create a text file /etc/defaultrouter with a single line containing the IP address of your router. Then try pinging the IP address of your router. If this doesn't work, post the full output of netstat -r . For DNS: when you say you added DNS, did you copy /etc/nsswitch.dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf and reboot? Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org
