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Dual booting Ubuntu 10.04 and OpenSolaris 2009.06 and use Ubuntu's grub as the boot-loader?

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I installed Ubuntu 10.04 first and OpenSolaris 2009.06 second. Ubuntu does not appear in OpenSolaris' boot-loader. How do I install Grub and have the boot list come up so that Ubuntu AND OpenSolaris appear and are operational and such?

Thank you :)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

I have found this link:

   http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3400579 (sorry, french forum, but about Grub2, the one with Lucid).
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
menuentry "Solaris sur /dev/sda4" {
    set root=(hd0,4)
    chainloader +1
}

### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

Be very careful about version of Grub used: legacy (0.97) or Grub 2 (1.98)
I hope it will help
For what I read in a blog, Ubuntu and Solaris use Grub, but Solaris Grub is customized, so you need to chain the both bootloader (Grub Ubuntu, then Grub Solaris).

If you need help, can you run
   sudo parted -l
where "-l" is lowercase "-L", and post result

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

Is your problem solved ? If not I can try to help, else, please, could you mark question "Solved".

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