Trouble with duel boot
Hi, I have a problem maybe someone can help me with. It's a little drawn out so please bare with me. On my PC I have two hard drives. One has XP on it and the other use to have Vista beta. I formated the vista drive so I can put Solaris 10 on it. One of my problems is that when I boot my PC I still have the choice of Windows xp and Windows Vista. If I click or pick vista I get the error no files found or corrupted.
So I guess I need to know how do I download Solaris 10 on to that drive without messing up the xp drive? If I put the disk in (Solaris 10) and boot my PC will it give me the choice of what drive I want it on somewhere down the line? I did start it and got scared that it was going on the xp drive and stopped it. Did I not wait long enough for it to ask that question about which drive? Thanks for everyones time. Syellek
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syellek1a] at [2007-11-26 23:01:43]
# 1
Hi,
Your words mean that you didn't install Solaris 10 in your system yet. Now you have formatted the vista drive and the OS choice menu still shows vista in it.
It is very natural and nothing to worry about. When you will install Solaris10 , it will install grub as OS selection menu and the previous one will be removed. Your windows XP will be shown in the grub.
Now if you want to remove that OS selection menu without installing Solaris10, then follow this.
1. go to my computer properties > Advanced tab > start up and recovery settings.
2. click edit and you will see menu like this-
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows vista" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
3. Now delete only the line starts with multi(..)disk(..).... that comtains vista.
4. change the timeout value to 0. timeout =0 . Then save and exit.
BE AWARE OF DELETING OTHER LINES FROM THAT FILE OR EDITING UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
I think it helps.
regards.
