Thomas Kloeber wrote: > I have a DELL E521, with AMD X2 5600, 4GB RAM, 500GB Disk, ATI Radeon X1300 > Graphiccard with 256 MB. > > It is currently running Vista Business x64. > All is well with this and it runs like heck. In order to utilize the > performance better I thought about installing Solaris Express Developer > Edition (2/07) as an alternative system and create a dual-boot setup. > > Here is what I did: > > 1. I created a free disk partition for Solaris (150 GB) > 2. I boot from the Solaris DVD and follow the installation steps > 3. the installation goes through without error > 4. but it can't seem to get the right video settings an keeps showing a wrong > resolution/sync values. > 5. I can boot Solaris ok and it runs, except for the display and network > settings. I dunno what else to try (I tried xorgcfg, Xorg -config, etc). > > But this is not the main problem: when I boot I get the GRUB menu to select > between Solaris and Windoze, but when I try to boot Vista it is corrupted and > can't be repaired. All I can do, is to restore the whole PC with Vista, which > then of course looses my Solaris install/GRUB. > > I have done this whole procedure now umteen times with all sort of different > options, but none helped. > > Vista doesn't like to play with other operating systems, have a read of
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