Installed Solaris 10 on Windows 2000 machine - only boots windows!
I am having huge problems with installing Solaris on my Windows 200 machine.
I want to be able to dual boot it and as I have two hard drives I made 100Mb free on the boot drive and 10Gb free on the second drive (so Solaris would live on the second drive and Windows on the first). I thought this was a neat solution.
The 100Mb of the boot drive seemed to please the installer enough for it to continue the install - but maybe I didn't need that. I just assumed from some of the cryptic messages it gave me the first time I tried to install it that this would be required.
The install process took hours and hours and hours... bet eventually finished (after many silly problems that I will probably post in a new message)
It got to the point of rebooting and the screen went blank and the PC booted.
First problem: Hey, I asked it to pop the install DVD out automatically for me, but I had to do it myself!!
Second Problem: My BIOS popped up a message saying that something was trying to modify the boot sector and would I allow this? Strange time for this message to pop up, but I said "Yes"
Third Problem: Windows 2000 boots. Er, what happened to the boot menu?
For some reason there is no GRUB boot loader.
So, I tried to boot the DVD again. Fine, but the only thing that it seems to do is offer me an upgrade - so this is what I selected. but it seems to be doing the full install again from scratch! It's been about an hour now and its got to 6% What a waste of time!!
So:
a) Why not do what Windows has done for years and include a repair option on the install disc?
b) Is there any way for me to manually repair this, or do I have to keep trying different full installations at 3 to 4 hours each hoping that one of them will eventually boot?
c) Is what I am trying to do even viable?
