<I'm trying to install OpenSolaris on my pc. So, before initiate the process install, I need to <know if it is possible to GRUB manage three OS's (Windows XP, Fedora Linux and OpenSolaris) <in a same hard drive and if OpenSolaris could be installed in a extended partition.
<Anybody knows what I have to do in order to install OpenSolaris with no problems? Triple-booting has been mentioned in Sun's blogs, but no one seems to bother to write a HOWTO. I have done Win-Fedora-Solaris triple booting so many times, now I can do it even during sleep. It is quite easy (though time-consuming), if you know how to do it. I assume that you are an experienced Linux user & I will only briefly mention some of the key steps (hopefully someday, I, or preferably someone more knowledgeable, will be able to write a more detailed step-by-step instruction). 1. If you are a Solaris newbie, stay with Solaris 10. OpenSolaris, at the present time, is a "community"; it exists only in abstract. 2. Before installing Solaris, you should use Fedora to partition your hard disc. Solaris must be installed in one of the three primary partitions, and I would give it at least 10 ~ 15 GB of hard disc space. 3. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong,) Solaris will install its boot loader only to the MBR (thus overwriting its content). Therefore, after installing Solaris 10, you have to boot your machine using your emergency disc (first disc of Fedora), chroot to your Fedora partition, then use the grub-install command to re-write your Fedora boot loader to the MBR. 4. Re-boot your machine to Fedora, then add the following two entries to your grub-conf file: Title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Title Solaris 10 makeactive rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 The above configuration assumes that you install Windows XP on your first partition of your IDE hard disc, Solaris on the second partition, and Fedora on the third. The "makeactive" statement is necessary because Linux does not read Solaris partition. For step-by-step instructions to install Solaris 10, the following post can be useful: http://lists.hosef.org/pipermail/luau/2005-August/016405.html This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
