On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 17:11 -0500, Greg Palmer wrote: > Norman H. Azadian wrote: > > Note - If you are installing the OpenSolaris OS on a multiboot system that > > also contains the Linux OS, the Solaris partition must precede the Linux > > swap partition. > > > > > > Yup, Linux Swap is my first partition, so I guess I get to start over again. > > > > I was always curious what would happen if you ignored that. Somehow that > line in the manual seemed like giving someone an instruction to never > press the red button. It becomes something you just have to try! Thanks > for answering that question for me, sorry about the pain it cost you! :-) > > Regards, > Greg
It's not clear to me whether "precede" means logically or physically. Anyway, I installed OpenSolaris on my Ubuntu box as dual-boot. In Linux terminology /dev/sda1 contains / /dev/sda2 contains swap /dev/sda3 contains /home /dev/sda4 contains OpenSolaris 2008.11 As I recall, the OpenSolaris installer created a menu.lst that wanted to boot from (hd0,1). I assume that's because it saw my Linux swap partition first. I simply changed the entry to (hd0,3) and it worked just fine. There's a caveat to "just fine." Turns out that Linux grub and OpenSolaris grub are not friendly, so I still don't have a dual-boot system. But that's for another thread. Bob
