Help Me edit the menu.lst !

ETC Boot Loaders
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I am trying to install three OS (Windows VISTA, OpenSUSE 11.3 & Solaris 11 Express) on a single drive of a laptop. However when I go to edit the /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst to put the entry so it can boot the OpenSUSE 11.3 I get errors some of which result into starting all over again. I have also tried editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the entry for Solaris 11 Express I get errors still. Could someone help me how I can accomplice this! I tried to google for examples but those examples are not helping. Thanks in advance.:wall::confused:

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Please provide a full copy of your existing menu.lst and details of which disks/partitions each of the operating systems is on.

3

This is what I have for the menu.lst located in /rpool/boot/grub:-

 splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz 
foreground 343434 
background F7FbFF 
default 0 
timeout 30 
#---------- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT ---------- 
title Oracle Solaris 11 Express snv_151a 
findroot (pool_rpool,4,a) 
bootfs rpool/ROOT/solaris 
splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm 
foreground FF0000 
background A8A8A8 
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics 
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive 
#---------------------END BOOTADM-------------------- 

# MicroSoft Windows Vista 

title MicroSoft Windows Vista 
    rootnoverify (hd0,1) 
    chainloader +1 

# OpenSUSE 11.3 

title OpenSUSE 11.3 
    rootnoverify (hd0,6) 
    chainloader +1

For the menu.lst in the OpenSUSE dir /boot/grub:-

default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,6)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12
    root (hd0,6)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK2035GSS_674VF1ZNS-part7 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK2035GSS_674VF1ZNS-part6 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x361
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12
    root (hd0,6)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK2035GSS_674VF1ZNS-part7 showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x361
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-desktop

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title MicroSoft Windows VISTA
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    chainloader +1
   
title Solaris 11
    rootnoverify (hd0,2) 
    chainloader +1

The windows VISTA is 2nd partition.
The solaris is 3rd partition.
OpenSUSE is on 4, 5 & 6 partitions.

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I'm working on the same problem but don't have an answer for you unfortunately.

Grub has it's own shell apart from BASH so grub is a interpreter also.
Anywhere you have "title" the following name of the OS will be listed in the boot selection at startup. Just adding commands to this (Grub script) will not load an O.S It might supply arguments for the Grub bootloader binary (actual compiled program). You will notice if you have a boot/grub directory that only two of the files are not binary and interesting enough is that they have different names (menu.lst and grub.conf) but hold the exact same data..The exact same files is a choice of how to access the data and is not important here but I thought I would point it out because it is confusing. You can add commands to this (Grub batch file) but it has dependencies that are not probably in place.

I hope this bit of info helps.:b: