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Multiple Solris on different 'partitions'

I had installed Solaris 10_74 on my laptop. I already had SuSE linux and WinXp on that. But I was missing the latest Solaris revision. I removed the linux partiion and installed BeleniX.
Ofcourse, I had to change the Solaris 10_74 partition id to 'unknown' sothat BeleniX doesn't find multiple Solaris partitions. So far so good. But I couldn't do a chainload from BeleniX to Solaris 10 and vice versa. I couldn't boot from either of the Solaris.
My colleagues Moinak Ghosh and Pavan Chandrashekar helped me to come out from this catch. Moinak built a new grub binary which he'll talk in his blog. Pavan helped in revocering boot blocks and issues related to pboot/mboot, disks and partitions. Thanks to the duo.

Now, I have WinXp, Solaris 10_74, BeleniX. I am also planning to configure Solaris 9 or linux (as I still have one partition free )

Posted at 11:38AM Aug 08, 2006 by vbjoshi in General  |