> It gave me the Options > Opensolaris.. > Opensolairs text console.. > Boot from the hard disk. > If I click on Boot from hard disk option,
Choose the first option when you boot from the CD, not the "Boot from hard disk" option. Then try the three steps I outlined below. HTH, Gregg vidhya wrote: > Dear Gregg, > > Thanks for your reply. But My problem didnt solved still. > As suggested, I have put the Opensolaris CD and boot the system, > It gave me the Options > Opensolaris.. > Opensolairs text console.. > Boot from the hard disk. > If I click on Boot from hard disk option, > It is again giving me the option for only Windows XP to choose. > I am afarid that whether opensolaris is there in my hard disk or not. > pls help me in finding out the solution.. > Thanks, > By > Vidhya > > Regarding Dual Boot Setup > Posted: Aug 14, 2008 4:49 PM > To: OpenSolaris ? help > Reply > > > 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.. > > > > > gsporar > > Posts: 3 > From: Austin, TX > Registered: 2/4/08 > Re: [osol-help] Regarding Dual Boot Setup > Posted: Aug 14, 2008 8:04 PM in response to: vs46961 > > Reply > > > > >> 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.. >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-help mailing list >> opensolaris-help at opensolaris dot org >> >> > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris dot org > > > > > > vs46961 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080822/c41babf4/attachment.html>
