Bob Plantz wrote: > Well, I tried that and could not get it to work. I read some place that > OS's grub has problems with UUID numbers; e.g., my Ubuntu entry is: > title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic > uuid 6a68fbe5-ff89-4fd1-9f1c-d2f8c164bb5b > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic > root=UUID=6a68fbe5-ff89-4fd1-9f1c-d2f8c164bb5b ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic > quiet > > I'm dual booting Fedora on this laptop. I have an entry for it as title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=844ca2e3-054a-49f9-a460-88164527f0a1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
You might be able to do something similar for Ubuntu. I'm not really familiar with using uuids and I've never used Ubuntu. I'm rather a newbie in the Linux world and have mostly been using strains of RedHat when I visited it. If Ubuntu would recognize something similar it might be interesting as an experiment. I'd leave what works alone and play with the menu.lst in the Solaris install. Of course, the marginal utility of being able to select Solaris boot from Ubuntu so that you can tell it to boot Ubuntu approaches zero except in one case, outlined below. :-) > Perhaps I will reinstall OS's bootloader and try again dual booting > through OS's grub. On the other hand, "if it ain't broken, ...." > I wouldn't mess with it myself. That always seems to precipitate an emergency need for the computer right about the time you get deepest into the process of fixing it. :-) OTOH, it would be awful convenient to have either setup able to dual boot in case you ever had to reinstall OpenSolaris and it overwrote the boot sector with its grub. Regards, Greg
