Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris and linux on same disk

2007-08-08 Thread Patrick Finch
Hi Georg, I believe that adding the Solaris chainloader entry in the Ubuntu Grub won't work. The Grub that ships with Feisty won't allow for this, so you need to acivate the Solaris partition, and add the Ubuntu chainloader entry to Solaris' /boot/grub/menu.lst and boot from there. Happy play

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris and linux on same disk

2007-08-08 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
I'm using Ubuntu Feisty (x86_64). I didn't use particular partition tools, just Linux fdisk and Solaris fdisk. FYI the hardware is a Dell M65 laptop. It turned out Solaris seems to reset the MBR and probably installs Grub into its own partition which is nice. Linux distros like to install over

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris and linux on same disk

2007-08-07 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Most partition tools aren't smart enough, probably. Also, the old Solaris partition number conflicted with the Linux swap partition number (never mind that the Solaris partition number existed first), which is why current Solaris prefers another non-conflicting number now. This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris and linux on same disk

2007-08-07 Thread Gerard Nualla
Hi I have windows, solaris and Linux on one disk.. =) Just wanna ask, what partition tool are you trying to use? And if you won't mind, what linux distro are you trying to install? Gerard This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-dis

[osol-discuss] opensolaris and linux on same disk

2007-08-07 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
Hi, I am installing OpenSolaris right now on some free space on a disk that contains Linux. Much to my surprise the partition tool warned me that installing on the same disk as Linux was "not supported". Could someone explain? Should I fear it actually does not work, or is it just you don't wan