[belenix-discuss] New BeleniX user!! :-) -

[USM Bish]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Sriram Narayanan<sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The  Belenix installer  indeed  makes its  GRUB the  primary
> GRUB, and we need to add entries for other Linux distros.
>
> At an event last year  in Bangalore, Moinak had chaperoned a
> GRUB modification session where the  team had come up with a
> mechanism to identify other installed OS and add entries for
> them automatically into GRUB's menu.lst
>

The  problem  is,  the  Solaris GRUB  does  not  see  extended
partitions, and  any changes  made to  Solaris GRUB  must also
address this aspect.

For the  present moment, it  is better to continue  with Linux
GRUB (if Linux is installed in the box). All that is needed in
the Belenix installer is to  have an option for not installing
Solaris GRUB on MBR (just like FreeBSD). By default the Caiman
installer  puts  the  Solaris  boot record  on  the  installed
partition. So  it the Solaris partition  can be satisfactorily
chain loaded from Linux GRUB.

Bish