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hi! i have installed winxp and suse 10. I have installed grub so that i can chose which os to boot. It works perfectly.
Now, i want to try solaris 10. How can i do so that i could be able to add solaris 10 to grub. I mean, i would like to have the choice of booting from xp or suse or solaris.
If i install solaris, it will obiously overwrite MBR. But, what happens if i then reintall grub whith my suse cds ? Will grub recognice solaris 10 ?
If someones nkows what may happen or has another solution i'll be grateful
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hi! i have installed winxp and suse 10. I have installed grub so that i can chose which os to boot. It works perfectly.
Now, i want to try solaris 10. How can i do so that i could be able to add solaris 10 to grub. I mean, i would like to have the choice of booting from xp or suse or solaris.
If i install solaris, it will obiously overwrite MBR. But, what happens if i then reintall grub whith my suse cds ? Will grub recognice solaris 10 ?
If someones nkows what may happen or has another solution i'll be grateful
1) Install SuSE's grub on the SuSE partition, that would give you a grub fallback should something goes wrong.
2) Install Solaris 10 update 1 or Solaris Express, then your MBR will be overwritten with a version of grub able to boot Solaris, XP and SuSE.
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