Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUB MBR : a difficult question

[Ian Brown]

Hello,
> Once you recover the solaris's grub ... reinstall linux grub on the linux
> partition boot sector and then chainload from solaris's grub to this linux
> grub and you're done.

Just to make sure I understand: by reinstall linux grub, do you mean
that I will
boot into solaris , then when the grub menu appears, type root (hd0,2)
(let's say this is the
linux partition) and then setup(hd0) or setup(hd0,2)?

Regards,
Ian Brown


On 10/30/06, Adrián <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>From the grub menu, is this:
> > rootnoverify(hd0,3)
> > makeactive
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > And I got:
> >   Invalid or unsupprted executable format.
>
> This is very strange but it could happen.
>
> >
> > Any idea what I should do?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ian
>
> Take Super Grub Disk and boot your Solaris.
>
> I do not remember right now. I think it was Advanced -> Boot other oses ->
> OpenSolaris
>
> well... it is supposed to work with OpenSolaris not with Solaris. But try
> it anyway so that you can give me some feedback :) .
>
> (If you cannot boot Solaris with SGD, at this step you should boot with a
> solaris live cd do a chroot (I actually do not know if it exists in
> Solaris or not) and run the command... continue reading)
>
> Once in Solaris there's a command called install-grub (I do not know why
> but you cannot reinstall solaris's grub with root and setup you have to
> run the stupid install-grub command) (Maybe it is called another way).
>
> Once you recover the solaris's grub ... reinstall linux grub on the linux
> partition boot sector and then chainload from solaris's grub to this linux
> grub and you're done.
>
> adrian15
>
>
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