Hi everyone, I finally decided to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my laptop on bare-metal (and not just VM) because of an upcoming talk.
The problem was that I already had SXDE Installed on it previously and the OpenSolaris 2008.05 installed would detect it as a solaris partition on which to install opensolaris, not allowing me to install on a different partition. Thanks to Anil <anil.gulecha at sun.com>'s tip I have installed OpenSolaris 2008.05, retaining my old SXDE (Build 79) install :) As Anil suggested, I edited partition ID using acronis disk editor from 0BFh to something else (0FFh - randomly selected), installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a new partition, and changed back the old partition's partition ID to 0BFh after installation. It was a breeze! Now, on some inspection I found out my grub partitions were as follows: * Old SXDE Grub (hd0, 2) New Osol08.05 Grub (hd0, 3)* The (new) active partition is the one which has Osol08.05. I added an entry to it: * root (hd0,2) chainloader +1* Apparently it worked. It took me to the old grub (which is located on old sxde partition). But when i booted my old SXDE this way, it rebooted after showing the copyright notice (those initial 3 lines) ! It boots up fine when I set the old partition as active and boot from it the regular way. I guess it didn't work because of the chainloading. Or maybe because SXDE needs the partition to be active to boot? Any way to get the old sxde into the new grub menu as a normal boot entry without having to set it to active to boot everytime (which would be a pain)? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080522/53fd3f11/attachment.html>
