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Old 05-14-2008
Solaris installation with Ubuntu and XP there..

Hi, i have for this moment Ubuntu 8.04 and XP SP2 and of course the grub loader for starting them.
I donwloaded Solaris 10.5 and intend to install it but i want to know if it will rewrite the grub loader i use now (and if, it will detect all OS?) or just append the new Solaris - any case would be ok. I`m afraid from what i read in this forum that it will rewrite my grub with its own and i won`t have access to other OS file systems.
I don`t want to delete any wind or linux partitions, reformat hard drive or things like this, i hope Solaris is "understandable" with my data.
Solaris have its own "booked" space on hard drive so, no matter for that.
Please adivise me.
# 2  
Old 05-14-2008
it will rewrite grub... sun needs the grub loader there own way because a "standard" grub can't boot solaris... (afair).

hth
# 3  
Old 05-14-2008
Thanks DukeNuke2 for reply... is there a way after installing Solaris to rewrite, edit the "standard solaris grub" so it knows about the other OS?
In fact i don`t want anything else but this... multi systems boot loader.
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Old 05-14-2008
That's what I did. Here is my menu.lst file from Solaris:
Code:
#pragma ident	"@(#)menu.lst	1.1	05/09/01 SMI"
default 1
timeout 30
#
# To enable grub serial console to ttya uncomment the following lines
# and comment out the splashimage line below
# WARNING: don't enable grub serial console when BIOS console serial
#	redirection is active!!!
#   serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
#   terminal serial
#
# Uncomment the following line to enable GRUB splashimage on console
#splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

color red/black black/green
title Trinity --- triple boot system with Windows XP/RHEL 5/Solaris 10
	root
title Windows XP
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

title Redhat Enterprise Linux 5
	root (hd0,7)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img

#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
#title Solaris 10 5/08 s10x_u5wos_10 X86
title Solaris 10 
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title Solaris failsafe
kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s
module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------

# Unknown partition of type 15 found on /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0 partition: 2
# It maps to the GRUB device: (hd0,1) .

# Unknown partition of type 187 found on /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0 partition: 4
# It maps to the GRUB device: (hd0,3) .

title -----UTILITIES-----
	root
title _^H      reboot
	reboot
title _^H      off
	halt
title _^H      halt
	halt --no-apm
title _^H      boot from floppy
	chainloader (fd0)+1

That _^H is an underscore followed by a backspace. I had to play around to get leading spaces with a grub title and I settled on that.
# 5  
Old 05-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
it will rewrite grub...
This statement is slightly incorrect. Solaris installer doesn't rewrite/overwrite any grub or other existing boot loader. It only installs its enhanced version of grub in its own primary partition and mark that partition active.
In addition to Solaris, it adds entries for booting Windows partitions when found but not other OSes so you'll indeed need to manually add their entries in menu.lst as already explained.
# 6  
Old 05-14-2008
Thanks Perderabo and jlliagre, for your explanations and activity on forum, I will try soon to experiment this. In case of success "I`ll be back" - reading on forum posts, tips and comments of course Smilie
# 7  
Old 05-16-2008
Well, i got stucked at "reading CD/DVD for installing operating system" faze, better said, no readings, no input available, so i shutdown it -f let`s say so (from the great great button).
I`ll go to read some more and maybe try another install.
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