On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 04:02 -0800, ved prakash prajapati wrote: > i have installed open solaris on my laptop. but now windows is unable to boot > and gives a error. can you suggest me any any solution of it.
I had this problem when installing Ubuntu Linux on my Acer laptop with Vista. One of the problems is that many laptops do not have a Vista installation disk. They use a hidden partition on the disk that you restore Vista from if necessary. My installation of Ubuntu wrote over the master boot record (MBR). (I did this a few months ago, and my memory of the precise steps may be slightly off.) I downloaded a Windows Vista Recovery CD from http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ I had to burn this CD and boot from it. As I recall, it allowed me to rebuild my MBR and get Vista back. Then when I reinstalled Ubuntu Linux, I was careful to install the grub bootloader ONLY on the Ubuntu partition. Be careful here to avoid writing over the MBR. Then under Vista I installed EasyBCD, which made it very easy to add Ubuntu Linux to the Vista boot system. It's pretty easy to find EasyBCD on the web. The "conventional wisdom" in the Linux world is to install Linux after Windows and set up grup to also boot into Windows. Apparently the Vista bootloader is quite good. So my advice is to do the opposite and use the Vista bootloader. This is also necessary (I think) in order to get to the hidden partition if you ever need to reinstall Vista. I don't know if this will work in OpenSolaris. If you try it, please share your experience with us. Bob
