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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX partition can't be recognized by Ubuntu Post 302232214 by buffoonix on Thursday 4th of September 2008 05:51:05 AM
Old 09-04-2008
From my OpenSolaris experiments, which admittedly haven't been too thorough
I recall that on the BigAdmin Website or some OpenSolaris site (was it called Solarium?) there exist Howtos that outline how to install a multi-boot scenario successfully.
I think one major issue was that you needed a special version of Grub
(maybe a patched one) that the OpenSolaris installer ISO ships
because grub must be able to address those BSD/SunOS kind of slices within the DOS partitions.
So that one can state things like
Code:
root (hd0,2,a)

which to my knowledge most grub versions shipped with the Linux distros can't understand.
The recommended procedure was to install Solaris last (after Windows, Linux) and install the grub that comes with Solaris.
Then of course, for any modifications in the grub's menu.lst you would have to boot into your Solaris first (which can be a bit nagging)
I am not sure if there are any Linux kernel drivers for SUN's UFS filesystem support.
But even if, mounting those rw under another OS always is considered suboptimal.
Just search docs.sun.com and the various Solaris forums/sites.
There you should find an abundance on multi-boot.
Maybe this will help for a start?
11.Modifying Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks) (System Administration Guide: Basic Administration) - Sun Microsystems
 

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GRUB(8) 								FSF								   GRUB(8)

NAME
grub - the grub shell SYNOPSIS
grub [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Enter the GRand Unified Bootloader command shell. --batch turn on batch mode for non-interactive use --boot-drive=DRIVE specify stage2 boot_drive [default=0x0] --config-file=FILE specify stage2 config_file [default=/boot/grub/menu.lst] --device-map=FILE use the device map file FILE --help display this message and exit --hold wait until a debugger will attach --install-partition=PAR specify stage2 install_partition [default=0x20000] --no-config-file do not use the config file --no-curses do not use curses --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --no-pager do not use internal pager --preset-menu use the preset menu --probe-second-floppy probe the second floppy drive --read-only do not write anything to devices --verbose print verbose messages --version print version information and exit REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
update-grub(8), grub-install(8). The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub programs are prop- erly installed at your site, the command info grub should give you access to the complete manual. grub (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB(8)
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