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I am not sure if this is the right sub forum to ask this question. Please bear with me. Thanks in advance to all.
I want to multi boot Windows 2000 Pro, Solaris 10 and Suse Linux 9.3 Pro in my computer.
I installed Windows first by creating a partition for it. Later I created another partition for Solaris and installed Solaris 10 there.
I left some space for Linux and installed Linux last. While installing Linux, I chose GRUB as the boot loader (or boot manager). Linux automatically detected Suse Linux installed (or about to be installed) and the Windows file system. Although it sees Solaris partition, I did not see that in the list of OS under 'Available Sections', but Windows and Linux were there.
So I added an entry for Solaris 10 in there along with Suse Linux, WIndows and Suse Linux fail safe. In 'Available Sections' section I chose :
I cloned the entry for Windows when i created the entry for Solaris. Windows had (hd0,0) (/dev/hda1) chainloader +1. (What is a chainloader? Can I have +1 for Solaris too?)
I also chose to Replace the code in MBR ('Replace /dev/hda with Generic code'), activated the boot loader partition ('Yes, activate /dev/hda3'). For the last value in the list (I forgot the name of the entry) the option read NIL when I continued with the install.
Linux installation went through fine. When I tried booting the system with GRUB, Linux and Windows start fine. But Solaris does not start. I get:
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root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xbf
chainloader +1
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and Solaris does not boot.
Can you please tell me what the error is and how to fix it.
No you'd better not do that - I don't understand that structure (of conf file).
Sorry I didn't read your first post closely enough - I missed that, and was just responding as per "normal" grub conf file. I've never been able to get Suse installed so I can't advise here - you'd best wait until someone else responds, or try asking in the Suse forum.
Thanks again for your response. I posted in Suse forum and they helped me out, it works now. They recommended I do the change you have suggested and add another line "makeactive" to the menu.lst file. Thanks to you and to them.
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