On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 23:33 -0800, Luiz Fabiano Lucena wrote: > Hi ppl, I've already have Vista installed on my first partition in the first > HD. I have another HD (slave from primary IDE where is Vista), so I've > installed OpenSolaris on that. > > All the normal steps like, boot up from CD and then install the OS, then > reboot but... Nothing happened! > > It came to Vista like nothing had happened. > > Any help to get in the OpenSolaris like grub or something like that?
I had a problem when installing Ubuntu on my laptop with Vista. The conventional wisdom in Linux land is to install Linux second, let it take over the Master Boot Record, and use grub to boot both systems. The problem is that many systems come without a Vista install disk. They use a hidden partition to restore the system if ever needed. And you cannot boot into the hidden partition with the Linux MBR. It turns out that (from what I hear) the Vista boot manager is quite good. Furthermore, there is a very nice free utility to work with the Vista boot manager. The utility is FreeBCD. I installed it on my Vista side, and it was very easy to use it to add my Ubuntu install to the Vista boot manager. My problem was even more serious, since I had written over the MBR. I found another utility, Vista_Recovery_Disc.iso, which I downloaded and burned to CD. Then I booted from that disk, and it allowed me to repair the MBR. Don't know if all this will work with OpenSolaris. If you try, please give us a report on your results. Bob
