edwardswyco
July 29th, 2008, 09:27 PM
I am new to Linux and Unix. A couple weeks ago, I decided to get rid of Windows and installed Ubuntu. I love it!
A friend recommended that I learn to play around with OpenSolaris 10 and I installed it...and then only Solaris would boot. Learning from blogs I have found, I reinstalled Ubuntu, took down the information from the menu.lst file:
title Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
and then tried to install Solaris again. After the install, I opened Solaris’ menu.lst file and added my Ubuntu information. After restarting, it gave me the option for either OS, but when I chose Linux, it told me that it was an unknown file type and could not load. I tried fooling around with different things, but basically had the same result – Linux would not boot. I decided to just install Ubuntu on the drive, although I left about 20GB open in case I figured anything out.
I noticed that both times I installed Solaris, it erased my Linux swap drive. Always starting with four partitions, I would end up with only two. Upon further research, at Linux.com, an article said that Solaris and Linux do not like to exist on the same hard drive, so they suggest to install on separate hard drives.
If I were to slap on a slave drive and install Solaris on one, will this allow me to dual boot? I don’t want to lose my Linux stuff again (it’s backed up, but just an inconvenience).
Thanks for any advice!!
A friend recommended that I learn to play around with OpenSolaris 10 and I installed it...and then only Solaris would boot. Learning from blogs I have found, I reinstalled Ubuntu, took down the information from the menu.lst file:
title Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
and then tried to install Solaris again. After the install, I opened Solaris’ menu.lst file and added my Ubuntu information. After restarting, it gave me the option for either OS, but when I chose Linux, it told me that it was an unknown file type and could not load. I tried fooling around with different things, but basically had the same result – Linux would not boot. I decided to just install Ubuntu on the drive, although I left about 20GB open in case I figured anything out.
I noticed that both times I installed Solaris, it erased my Linux swap drive. Always starting with four partitions, I would end up with only two. Upon further research, at Linux.com, an article said that Solaris and Linux do not like to exist on the same hard drive, so they suggest to install on separate hard drives.
If I were to slap on a slave drive and install Solaris on one, will this allow me to dual boot? I don’t want to lose my Linux stuff again (it’s backed up, but just an inconvenience).
Thanks for any advice!!