Happy New Year! I'm new to this forum, but have past experience on Solaris (though not installing). I've spent the last few days spare time building a new system, and trying to install dual-boot Vista and SXDE. I've run into a few problems, but it seems to work now.
- System is an ASUS P5K-VM motherboard with a Q6600 Core-2 Quad installed. - I started by installing Vista, with which I downloaded and burned the SXDE DVD. - SXDE install went fine, was able to boot into Solaris fine (there's a network driver problem, but I'll try to figure that out...) - Could not boot back into Vista. I googled a blog entry that claimed this was fixed in build 70. Is this fix in SXDE? - I had to use a recovery proceedure that included using the repair feature of the install disk, a few obscure CLI commands and a few reboots. This, of course, got me back to Vista, but left me with no Solaris. - I decided to give SXCE a try, since it's a later build (78). Standard "Solaris Express Developer Edition" install failed (could not initialize graphics, which is strange because SXDE had no problems), "Solaris Express" choice also failed, it just stopped at some point saying the installer was already running. - I decided that I should try following the spirit of some of the steps in the following blog: http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual - Booted into single user mode using the install disk, which mounted my previously abandoned SXDE partition on /a - Ran 'installgrub -m /a/boot/grub/stage1 /a/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c2d0s0' - Used dd to grab the mbr, copied to a USB stick, etc., but that's not important... - When I rebooted, to my surprise, GRUB was back, and both Vista and SXDE boot fine! Perhaps someone can explain what I accidentally did right? This message posted from opensolaris.org
