triple boot xp vista and solaris 10

Hello.

I heared that booting Vista using GRUB does not work propperly. You should boot GRUB (Solaris) from the Windows boot manager.

To do so install GRUB on the Solaris partition and not on the MBR.

Then log in as "root" and copy the GRUB boot sector:

dd if=/dev/rdsk/cxdxpx of=solaris.bin bs=512 count=1

(replace /dev/rdsk/cxdxpx by the real name of the Solaris partition)

Copy the file solaris.bin to the C: drive of your Windows partition.

a) You may use the Windows XP boot manager. Add the following line to the c:\boot.ini file:

C:\Windows\Solaris\solaris.bin="Solaris"

(Replace C:\Windows\Solaris\solaris.bin by the real full name of the file.)

b) You may also use the Vista boot manager. I did not try this myself because I do not have Vista. You must use the following commands for this:

bcdedit /create /d "Boot solaris" /application BOOTSECTOR

You'll get a message like this:

=> The entry was successfully copied to {xxx}

You require the "{xxx}" for the following two commands:

bcdedit /set {xxx} device boot

bcdedit /set {xxx} path \Windows\Solaris\solaris.bin

(Note that the \Windows\Solaris\solaris.bin does not begin with "C:")

Martin

Martin_Rosenaua at 2007-7-12 1:26:48 >