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 the rootnoverify as (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. I have asked the question in the forum and i got a reply as follows: 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. But still I m not able to do the things correctly. If I booted into solaris the terminal window is opening as jack at opensolaris and so if i gave pfexec command it is not working. it is opening another window with a blank screen with a cursor. Can anyone help me in finding the solution for my problem. By Vidhya .. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
