Hello everybody,
I am trying to get four operating systems running on my Laptop: Windows 7, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris. I am have them on my hard-disk( because I can see them when I boot my computer from GParted CD), but I am not able to boot them.
At any point of time, I am able to boot either two or three operatins systems:
Two:
Windows 7, OpenSolaris; through OpenSolaris Grub ( NO Fedora, FreeBSD)
Windows 7, Fedora; through Fedora Grub ( NO OpenSolaris, FreeBSD)
Three:
Windows 7, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD; through FreeBSD bootloader ( N0 Fedora)
Windows 7, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD; through GAG bootloader ( NO Fedora, again)
I think there is something in the way that Fedora installs itself: it automatically converts any partition that is given to it into extended partition and then divides the extended partition further.
I am writing the grub information from OpenSolaris that might help:
splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
background 215ECA
timeout 30
default 0
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ----------
title OpenSolaris 2009.06
findroot (pool_rpool,1,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground d25f00
background 115d93
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
#---------------------END BOOTADM--------------------
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.img
# Unknown partition of type 131 found on /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0p0 partition: 3
# It maps to the GRUB device: (hd0,2) .
# Unknown partition of type 5 found on /dev/rdsk/c10t0d0p0 partition: 4
# It maps to the GRUB device: (hd0,3) .
# Unknown partition of type 101 found on /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0p0 partition: 2
# It maps to the GRUB device: (hd0,1) .