Hi, ALL, I have a computer with the Gentoo Linux running. I decided to install OpenSolaris on it and make it a dual-boot.
The hardware setup is: 2 hard drives. 1 hard drive is recognized as /dev/hda and has 2 partitions: /dev/hda1 for /boot and /dev/hda2 for Linux swap. 2 hard drive is recognized as /dev/hdd and _now_ has 2 partitions: /dev/hdd1 for Linux / and /dev/hdd2 which currently contains Solaris installation. I successfuuly made a bootable OpenSolaris CD and successfully installed OpenSolaris on the /dev/hdd2 (c8d1p1, c8d1 is a disk name from the OpenSolaris setup) following the instruction on the http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/reviews/Dual_Boot_Install_Doc_Plan/Dual-Booting-OpenSolaris-with-Ubuntu-Linux/Installing-OpenSolaris-on-New-Linux-Partition/ page. The problem arises when I went to the step "Add Ubuntu Linux Back to the GRUB Menu" part of the URL above. After the computer rebooted, and selecting "Boot from the Hard Drive" from the BIOS menu, I found that I have my old /boot/grub/grub.conf (menu.lst), i.e. Solaris install did not modified my boot partition at all. So I boot to my Linux install successfully and tried to add OpenSolaris to the "grub.conf" file. I just grabbed the lines from the URL that are there. To my surprise, those lines did not appera after reboot, and I still ended up with the exact same lines in the boot menu in GRUB. So, my questions are: 1. How come the installation do not recognize that it needs to change the grub menu of the boot partition? 2. What I need to do in order for the OpenSolaris lines appear in the grub menu after reboot? 3. Is this setup will even work? I mean installing OpenSolaris on the /dev/hdd hard drive? Can someone shed some light on this please. Thank you. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
