Ienup Sung wrote:
> Don't add "makeactive" since it will, as you know, make Windows to boot
> all the time. To recover from this, from Windows, run fdisk and select

This is not always true.  It depends on WHERE you install GRUB.  If you install
GRUB as the master boot record (MBR), then regardless of what partition is
marked active, GRUB will always run at boot.  However, if you installed GRUB in
a partition and left the old WinDOwS boot program in the MBR, then it will pass
control to the boot sector in whatever partition is marked "active."
Personally, I prefer to install GRUB in the MBR and mark the partition active
for WinDOwS and whatever other OS behaves more rationally in an "active" 
partition.

> the Solaris partition as the active partition. Exit Windows and reboot.
> The grub will show up. Boot solaris, remove the "makeactive" from
> the menu.lst and your system will be fine.

Or, as I've suggested above, leave menu.lst the same and install GRUB in the MBR
rather than a partition.

Rob
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