[indiana-discuss] grub don't boot OpenSolaris 2008.05 after one reboot

[sanjay nadkarni (Laptop)]

Luca Morettoni wrote:
> Hi, I have installed and used OpenSolaris on a single installation for a
> long time. Now on my laptop I buy a new big HD (320G) to be shared with
> WinXP and OpenSolaris.
> First I have installed WinXP on a 60G partition, then I installed
> OpenSolaris with any problem, at the end of installation I reboot the
> system, ALL work fine, I see grub menu and I choose to boot
> opensolaris... the system is ok (remember, I don't touch nothing on the
> disk), but when I reboot again the problem, I get the grub menu (GRUB> )
> and nothing start...
> Any hints?
>
>   
Admittedly this is a bit of puzzle since you were able to boot it 
successfully once.   Is it possible that when you rebooted the second 
time, the BIOS is picking up the wrong disk ? i.e. are there two disks 
on this system ?  Can you check the boot order via the bios ?


-Sanjay