While this is not directly related to your issue, it may have some information
that you can use.
I attempted a triple-boot of Windows XP, Linux Mint 8 (Based on Debian, which
is also the base for Ubuntu) and OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my Toshiba Satellite
M115-S3094.
I struggled for many days and read quite a few articles. As of this morning, I
have got all three to boot and run successfully.
This will not describe all of the trials and tribulations, but rather the last
stage of getting this to work.
The first task I performed was to download and burn an iso image of gpartd to
allow me to start off with the disk partitioned the way I needed.
By needed, I mean that the sequence of partitions plays a major impact with
Grub working properly. While reading the available documents, I found that
OpenSolaris is required to be installed last because it has a modified Grub to
allow for the booting off of ZFS filesystems. Then the other obscure item I
found was that OpenSolaris is required to be installed in front of the Linux
Swap partition.
Back to gpartd, I partitioned my harddrive for the first partition to be used
for Windows XP, followed by a partition for OpenSolaris, then the Linux Swap
and finally the Linux partition.
Once the drive was partitioned the way I wanted, I then installed Windows XP on
the first partition. After it installed, I verified that it continued to work
as expected. It did!
The next step was to install Linux Mint 8 which was installed to the 4th
partition. Upon its reboot, I was able to boot to it and after another reboot
verified that I could still get into Windows. Perfect, so far this is going
well. I booted back to Linux Mint and copied its grub.cfg to a USB stick.
This will be needed to be added to the OpenSolaris Grub, menu.lst.
Next was to install OpenSolaris, again this is last because of the modified
Grub and into the second partition. Once the installation was complete, and I
rebooted, the Grub Menu only listed Windows and OpenSolaris, as expected.
I mounted the USB drive so that I could get the Linux Mint grub information.
Then, made a copy of the /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst for backout purposes. Then
proceeded to modify the menu.lst. The grub info that I copied to the menu.lst
was just the data for the Linux Mint:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Linux Mint 8 Helena, linux 2.6.31-14-generic (/dev/sda4)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,4)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c03cdf3e-c7d1-4b50-bc21-9e632364f543
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
root=UUID=c03cdf3e-c7d1-4b50-bc21-9e632364f543 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
menuentry "Linux Mint 8 Helena, linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,4)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c03cdf3e-c7d1-4b50-bc21-9e632364f543
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
root=UUID=c03cdf3e-c7d1-4b50-bc21-9e632364f543 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
Since this is not in the format required by the OpenSolaris Grub, I modified it
to the following:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
title Linux Mint 8 Helena, linux 2.6.31-14-generic (/dev/sda4)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
root=UUID=c03cdf3e-c7d1-4b50-bc21-9e632364f543 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
title Linux Mint 8 Helena, linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
root=UUID=c03cdf3e-c7d1-4b50-bc21-9e632364f543 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
I then saved this newly modifed menu.lst and rebooted.
After the reboot, I saw the entries I expected. Then the tests, first can I
boot into OpenSolaris? This went well. Then another reboot and selected
Windows, it also went well. Finally the test to see if I can boot into Linux
Mint, voila!, it worked!
So, in a nutshell, and so that you do not need to research as long and hard as
I did, here are the key items to remember:
1. OpenSolaris needs to be installed last (due to modifications to support ZFS)
2. OpenSolaris needs to be installed on a partition in front of the Linux Swap
partition. My layout:
sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <------ disk partition
names
|----------|-------------------|----------|---------------|
| XP | OpenSolaris | SWAP | Linux Mint |
|----------|-------------------|----------|---------------|
(hd0,0) (hd0,1) (hd0,2) (hd0,3) <------------- Grub
partition names
3. Modify the grub.cfg to the format required for OpenSolaris' Grub (remember
that Grub's numbering of partitions starts at 0 so when you install Linux on
the 4th partition its partition for Grub is hd0,3 not 4)
That's all I had to do to get this working. I hope you will be able to extract
the key items that will help you to resolve your issue.
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