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When the three of these exist on the same box MBR is captured by Linux. If windows and SolarisX86 only exist the MBR is captured by Solaris. Usually the best sequence to install OS is windows, solaris and finally Linux. Windows can be chain loaded from Solaris as well as Linux ( I use SuSE ) and Solaris can be chainloaded from Linux. When you install solaris (windows is already installed), MBR is captured by Solaris and in the /boot/grub/menu.lst an entry for window chain loading is added automatically by Solaris grub. with this when you boot the system you see windows and Solaris appear in boot menu. Now if you install SuSE, it captures the MBR. It does capture the windows chain loader but leaves out the solaris entry. That means Solaris does not appear in the boot menu. To add Solaris to the boot menu do this simple step. - boot in SuSE10.1 - open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (best is to back it up) - add entry for SolarisNV title SolarisNevada chainloader (hd0,2)+1 here hd0 is first disk and 2 is third partition. You can choose them correctly for your system. Now booting should show Solaris in boot menu and you should be able to boot it