Jaw3000
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I've been trying unsuccessfully for the last few days to set up tripleboot on my system between Vista, XP, and OpenSolaris May release (also known as Indiana). I had originally planned on using the Solaris-installed Grub, which worked fine for booting Solaris, Ubuntu, and Vista but for whatever reason, wouldn't load XP from Vista's bootloader. When I load Vista's bootloader directly (without Grub), XP will boot successfully. Using Grub, the computer just restarts after selecting XP in Vista's bootloader. Unless someone knows why this could be occurring and a way to fix XP boot with Grub, I decided to try the opposite using Vista's bootloader to try and chainload the Solaris Grub, so I naturally turned to EasyBCD.
In EasyBCD, I added a Linux entry, selecting the OpenSolaris partition. However, this doesn't work, and upon selecting it, just returns to the Vista boot screen without doing anything. I haven't really experimented heavily with NeoGrub yet. From what I've read, Solaris installs its own Grub variant that is able to properly handle OpenSolaris's ZFS root file system. Apparently, linux-installed grubs can't load solaris, but solaris can boot linux. I'm thinking the problem I'm running up against may be a result of EasyBCD not supporting OpenSolaris's boot peculiarities (such as ZFS or the different placement of Grub config files - menu.lst is located in /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst for example).
If anyone has any experiencing booting the OpenSolaris May release from NeoGrub or with EasyBCD, I'd appreciate any help. Additionally, if someone has any suggestion to get XP to boot from Vista bootloader after using Solaris Grub, I'd be interested as well.
My drive/partition configuration is as follows:
160GB HD (Partition 1: Open Solaris; Partition 2: Ubuntu); 100GB HD (Partition 1: XP; Partition 2: Vista)
In EasyBCD, I added a Linux entry, selecting the OpenSolaris partition. However, this doesn't work, and upon selecting it, just returns to the Vista boot screen without doing anything. I haven't really experimented heavily with NeoGrub yet. From what I've read, Solaris installs its own Grub variant that is able to properly handle OpenSolaris's ZFS root file system. Apparently, linux-installed grubs can't load solaris, but solaris can boot linux. I'm thinking the problem I'm running up against may be a result of EasyBCD not supporting OpenSolaris's boot peculiarities (such as ZFS or the different placement of Grub config files - menu.lst is located in /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst for example).
If anyone has any experiencing booting the OpenSolaris May release from NeoGrub or with EasyBCD, I'd appreciate any help. Additionally, if someone has any suggestion to get XP to boot from Vista bootloader after using Solaris Grub, I'd be interested as well.
My drive/partition configuration is as follows:
160GB HD (Partition 1: Open Solaris; Partition 2: Ubuntu); 100GB HD (Partition 1: XP; Partition 2: Vista)