Hi,
I'm planning my disc partitioning and GRUB env on it.
I'm considering to create dedicated GRUB partition as described under :
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#How_to_make_a_separate_Grub_Partition_
The thing is that I want this partition to be of EXT2 or EXT3 type and
from what I've known it's not that easy (if NOT impossible) to see it
(mount it) from Solaris ???
my disk:
/dev/sda MBR
/dev/sda1 /boot/grub
/dev/sda2 Solaris
/dev/sda3 Windows
/dev/sda4 EXT
/dev/sda5 Linux SWAP
/dev/sda6 Linux1
/dev/sda7 Linux2
/dev/sda8 Linux3
...
/dev/sdaN LinuxN
I need to mount it to execute following commands:
# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/GRUB/
# cp -r /boot/grub /media/GRUB/boot/
# vi /media/GRUB/boot/menu.list
# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
I can NOT use Solaris grubinstall as it says that it can NOT install it
on whole partition or something ... it must be a solaris slice (like
/dev/rdsk/c0d0t0s0 and NOT /dev/rdsk/c0d0t0p1 for example) ?
Should I start off my machine from Live CD other that Solaris that can
see Ext2/Ext3 partition and then mount openSolaris LiveCD and copy those
files then?
It seems that starting from openSolaris LiveCD or openSolaris parition
it's hard to do that (or NOT straightforward) ... "-m" option to put it
in MBR works fine and I'm OK with keeping Solaris GRUB stage1 in my MBR
as it can see any partition (both linux. windows and solaris ZFS
partition ... unlike linux GRUB)
thanks for any hints
jacek
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