[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI GRUB and Linux LVM (dualboot) support

[Reginald Beardsley]

Booting from a separate USB disk is much easier to setup.  Let the BIOS take care of it.  Just remember to always plug the disk into the same port.

Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Tue, 9/4/12, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI GRUB and Linux LVM (dualboot) support
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 11:04 AM
> On 4 September 2012 16:17, Jim Klimov
> <jimklimov at cos.ru>
> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >   I'm trying to set up dual-boot with OI
> 151a5 and a Linux
> > (Fedora 17) on my laptop, and I'm not sure if the two
> OSes'
> > bootloaders very much compatible. In particular,
> chainloading
> > from OI GRUB1 into Linux GRUB2 partition yields an
> error about
> > something "not executable". I can't yet tell if the
> linux part
> > was mis-installed or if GRUB1 can somehow refuse to use
> the
> > partition with installed GRUB2, or in particular if it
> barfs
> > at the LVM table (instead of a partition being an FS),
> or at
> > the ext4....
> 
> My system has the Linux Grub2 bootloader chainloading into
> the Illumos
> Grub as the default option.
> 
> Jon
> 
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