[OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Ekiga/OPAL with H264/H263 support

[Cia Watson]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:18:52 +0530
Chdslv <chdslv at gmail.com> wrote:

 
> How do you go from here, I don't know.
> 
> When installed, OpenIndiana only saw MS Windows in the choose panel,
> (well, I don't know ho wit is called), but doesn't see its partition
> when Openindiana is opened.
> 
> I had to get back to Linux, so I had to re-install Mint, but after
> installing, Mint doesn't see th eOpenindiana partition, nor it is
> there in the choose panel or GRUB panel. I still have the DVD with
> OpenIndiana, and there is that installed partition in the hard disk.
> 
> I would like have OpenIndiana together with Linux and also MS windows
> (hmmm...I need windows for certain programs, which doesn't ever work
> with Linux. Don't know, whether these would work with OpenIndiana)
> 
> If you could help, I'd appreciate that very much!
> 
> Best regards!
> 
> Chanath

Hi Chenath,

For a while I was dual (triple)-booting OpenSolaris (upgraded to OI for
a short while), with a couple of other Linux distros and I just added
those distros into the /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst file using the
chainloader option. I designated the partitions with the standard grub
(hd0,x) as appropriate.

I later installed Linux Mint Debian which uses grub2, and that grub
overwrote the Osol grub which I had been booting to. So I tried adding
the osol partition to the 40_custom file in /etc/grub.d and osol /
OI booted from that fine. I don't have Windows in the mix, but I
suspect the chainloader option should work. In case you want it, here's
what I added to the 40_custom file:
menuentry "OpenSolaris" {
set root=(hd0,3)
chainloader +1
}
menuentry "Fedora13 chainloader" {
set root=(hd0,1)
chainloader +1
}

However, given all of that, I have since deleted my OI partition (it's
sitting empty waiting for CentOS 6 to be released), and when a stable
OI is released I may get a new drive to put it on, so that ZFS and
ext3 / 4 and linux swap aren't all trying to coexist on the same drive.