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| Dear All, Previously i was having a machine with dual boot OS's: Windows XP SP2 and Solaris 10. I am having about 13 GB of free space on the HDD. Now i have installed the new Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux (currently being distributed free by Oracle, yesterday i received two dvd's from Oracle) into this free space. Now it is a dual boot with Oracle Linux and Windows XP. Linux asked about other OS's while setting up OS and grub but i can't provide Solaris partition information at that time. At present the Logical Volume Management (GNome: system-config-lvm 1.0.19 ) programs shows this information about Solaris partition. Partition 3 /dev/sda3 Size:9.77 GB Partition Type: Unknown Mount Point: Unmounted File System: No File System Not initializable:Foreign Boot Partition Mount Point when rebooted: None The Grub's grub.conf contents are as follows: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,3) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda4 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=2 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,3)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Enterprise (2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp) root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp.img title Enterprise-up (2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL) root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL.img title Windows XP Professional SP2 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 I have saved the Solaris's grub file menu.lst on windows partition (now solaris is not accessible) and its contents are: #pragma ident "@(#)menu.lst 1.1 05/09/01 SMI" # # default menu entry to boot default 0 # # menu timeout in second before default OS is booted # set to -1 to wait for user input timeout 5 # # 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 # # To chainload another OS # # title Another OS # root (hd # chainloader +1 # # To chainload a Solaris release not based on grub # # title Solaris 9 # root (hd # chainloader +1 # makeactive # # To load a Solaris instance based on grub # # title Solaris # root (hd # kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot # module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive # # To override Solaris boot args (see kernel(1M)), console device and # properties set via eeprom(1M) edit the "kernel" line to: # # kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot prop1=val1,prop2=val2,... # #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- title Windows XP Professional SP2 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive #---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- #---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- title Solaris failsafe root (hd0,2,a) kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -s module /boot/x86.miniroot-safe #---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- # Unknown partition of type 15 found on /dev/rdsk/c1d1p0 partition: 2 # It maps to the GRUB device: (hd0,1) . Now I am asking how to update the Oracle Linux's grub.conf file so as to make the system triple boot. I tried by adding title Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86 root (hd0,2,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive at the end, but when chosen in the menu at the time of boot, it says 'No such partition exists' How to refer /dev/sda3 (Solaris partition) in the grub.conf ( root (hd0,2,a) ???) ? Please help me in creation of grub.conf. Can i make it triple boot? Thanks in advance. -Sameer Shinde |
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