>But it became only a temporary solution,Everytime while booting i need 
to give this command.

Right, that's because editing the entry during boot time only affects 
that boot.  Your changes are not saved.

 >make active command will resolve the issue.

Yes, but as you have seen, at a high price: the GRUB menu is no longer 
being displayed.  Instead, as you noted, the system always boots into 
Windows XP.

I would suggest the following:

1. Boot the LiveCD but do not re-install OpenSolaris.  All you need to 
do is make the partition on which OpenSolaris was installed active 
again.  You can do that using the fdisk command; take a look at this 
blog entry: 
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/triple_boot_part_3_install.  It 
provides an example of how to use "pfexec format -e" in order to run fdisk.

2. Reboot from the hard drive.  You should see the GRUB selection menu 
again.

3. Select OpenSolaris.  After it boots, edit the file 
/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst  (you can use this command: "pfexec gedit 
/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst").  Make the change that you need to the 
rootnoverify entry for Windows XP and then save the file.  Do not add 
the "makeactive" entry.

4. Reboot again and select Windows XP.

HTH,
Gregg



vidhya wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have my laptop installed with Windows XP. Then I have installed 
> opensolaris. I was able to see both XP and opensolaris in the GRUB menu. but 
> if i click to boot the windows it displayed an Error:11-Unrecognized data 
> string. And i searched in many forums and i have found a solution. That is i 
> need to edit as rootnoverify(hd0,0) which was rootnoverify(hd0) previously.
>
> But it became only a temporary solution,Everytime while booting i need to 
> give this command. Then again i searched and found that make active command 
> will resolve the issue. so i have added a line as
>
> rootnoverify(hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> But now XP became my default OS. It is not prompting for opensolaris. can 
> anyone help me in finding out the solution..
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