hi, after some experiences and some losts i have this triple boot. take a look at my partition list
on top of the harddisk, the MBR master bootrecord primary partition #1 ntfs 20 GB primary partition #2 ext3 20GB primary partition #3 ufs 18 GB (activated) primary partition #4 linus swap 2GB first, there is no install order! if we install or upgrade opensolaris 74 the installer grabs partition #3 and configured slices 0-9 into. at least grub is installed and a pointer is written into MBR that points to solaris grub. - reboot and we see solaris grub. if we install or upgrade linux into partition #2, linux grub is installed into /boot/grub and a pointer is written into MBR which points to /boot/grub. - reboot and we see linux grub. if we install or upgrade windows into partition #1, the MBR is written which points to windows boot record. - reboot and we see windows. now we have 3 bootable partitions that always overwrite our MBR, so we need a leading grub. This must be the Linux Grub because each kernel updates writes new entries into menu.lst In Linux Grub menu.lst add an entry to window hd(0) and an entry to the Solaris Grub hd(2,0,a) every time i install a new window (iinstalled it only once) or install a new Solaris the MBR is overwritten by the installers. Take your Linux Rescue CD and refresh the mbr. - reboot and we see Linux Grub, select the Solaris menu entry and we see Solaris Grub. btw your ugly GRUB in upper left corner means MBR cant found a boot record that points to a valid grub. a more ugly red PTR in bottom left corner means there is no valid MBR. For coexistence of Solaris and Linux there is no chance for only one Grub screen, we need this Grub hopping. Hope that helps you. Adi This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
