Welcome to Opensolaris.org Legolas! I hope I can be of help. On 8/25/07, legolas wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Thank you for reading my post > I have following configuration and i tried to install Solaris Express > Developer edition 05/07. > > 1-Hard disk 1 = SATA, windows in installed on this disk > 2-Hard dist 2-SATA, ubuntu is installed on this disk. > > I create a partition on disk 2 and start installation process, during > installation i select disk 2 and installer recognized that i have a solaris > disk ready for it. but problem is that before it goes to disk layout page it > shows a warning like: > "your selected disk is not your boot disk and you should change it in your > bios in next restart."
Historically the installer would only install a Master Boot Record (bootblock) on the harddrive that you are installing the OS on. In your case this is disk two. The installer noted, that the disk that you were attempting to install Solaris on is not set in your BIOS to be your boot drive, and was warning you of that. (Otherwise you would never be able to boot Solaris without editing the bios or the MBR on drive one.) > I stoped the installation process and i come here to share my configuration > with you and ask for your advice before i screw up 2*300 GB hard disks. > > When i have Disk 1 as my boot disk Linux Grub come and I can select windows > or linux OS to start them. This is as expected, as the Linux GRUB installer detects Windows partitions and adds them to the menu. > When i select disk 2 as boot disk, Grub come and when I select windows it > shows an Error about "NTLDR missing" press any key to reboot. I am not sure why you have GRUIB installed on your second Harddrive. > > Now that solaris is asking me to make my second disk as my boot disk will it > be able to boot my windows and linux which are already installed? The easiest thing to do is to go ahead and install on the second drive. When you want to boot Solaris set your BIOS to boot of the second drive. If you want to run Linux or Windows, set you BIOS to boot of of your 1st drive. > I can not understand how will Solaris detect my current OSs and make them > work properly when i change the boot priority. One thing you can do though, if you are willing to go through a bit of work, is to install Solaris on the second hard drive, and continue to boot GRUB off of the first hard drive, but add an entry for Solaris that points to the second drive's GRUB MBR. Being as I don't multiboot as a rule of practice, I don't have experience manually editing GRUB menus. It seems that you can create a chain loader on your Linux grub menu to point to the Solaris GRUB bootloader: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/grub_boot_solaris.html > I would be very grateful for any comment or experience. > > > Thanks > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > [email protected] > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
