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How to Survive Boot Camp (and Run Win 7 on a Mac)

Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are great. And cheap. Boot Camp’s the free, official way to run them both natively on one machine. It’s easy to setup, and just works, except when it doesn’t. Here’s how to survive Boot Camp.

Boot Camp, to be clear, is different from virtualization software like Parallels or VM Ware Fusion or Virtual Box, which you let you run Windows inside of OS X, almost like an application. Boot Camp runs Windows natively on a Mac—you power on, click the Windows icon at the boot manager, and it starts it up, just the same as if you’d powered on a Dell. Why Windows straight up on a Mac? To live a little. Or in my case, to play PC games.

What you’ll need

• A Windows 7 disc
• A Snow Leopard disc
• An Intel-based Mac
• Free disc space!

More on system requirements here.

It’s easy, probably

Boot Camp, and the process of installing Windows in most cases, couldn’t be more straightforward, at least as far as operating system installs usually go. After you’ve got your Mac up and running like normal, fire up an app called Boot Camp Assistant (just use Spotlight). It’ll warn you to back up your disk before installing Windows, which you should, since you are asking favors of the hard drive gods here.

Boot Camp Assistant will ask how much of your hard drive you wanna dedicate to Windows. You want more than the laughably small 5GB of space it suggests. Since I keep around 3-4 games on my Windows partition at a time, and I want some breathing room just in case, I stick with 40GB, but you probably really want no less than 20GB. Slide the bar toward the Finder face, granting Windows how much hard drive space you want it to have. After you click partition, Boot Camp Assistant will start getting your hard drive divvied up for some Windows action, which’ll take a few minutes. Once that’s done, you’ll need your Windows disk.

If everything went according to plan, skip this next section!

If something went wrong

It’s possible you’ll get an error that says Boot Camp Assistant wasn’t able to create the partition because some files couldn’t be moved, and you need to format the drive into a single partition. Basically, what’s happened here, most likely, is that your hard drive is fragmented like a mofo, and there’s not enough contiguous space for Boot Camp Assistant to create the Windows partition. Yeah, disk fragmentation. In OS X. Believe it. From here, there a couple possible solutions.

If you’re extraordinarily lucky, it’s possible you might be able to simply restart your computer and stuff will just work. Probably not! From there, you proceed to the free and easy solution. Using Disk Utility, resize your main OS X partition, reducing it by 40GB (or however much you plan on making your Windows partition). Hit apply, and pray. If that goes peachy, you’ll have 40GB of unused space on your disk. Go back to Disk Utility, and re-expand your OS X partition to reclaim the 40GB. After that’s all done, run Boot Camp Assistant again, and since the hard work of moving files around on the disk was done by Disk Utility, you should be golden.

If, on the other hand, Disk Utility also refused to change your drive’s partitions, you have two choices. The nuclear option is to back up, format your hard drive completely, then run Boot Camp and divide your hard drive into partitions from the Snow Leopard installation before restoring all of your OS X data via machine. Since my Snow Leopard install was practically virginal, as a totally clean (not restored) install that was only around 10 days old [ed. note—how the hell did your hard drive get so fragmented then?], I said screw that. Which led me to iDefrag.

It’s a $30 defragmenting program. I don’t know if my hard drive was really as disgustingly fragmented as it said, or if it’ll ultimately help my Mac’s performance, but it perfectly executed what I bought it for. Basically, you make a startup DVD (using your Snow Leopard install disc, so keep it handy), boot into it, and it shows you how gross and fragmented your hard drive is before going to work defragging it for a couple hours. Restart, you’re back in OS X, and Boot Camp Assistant won’t talk back to you again. At least, it didn’t to me.

The part where you actually install Windows, so grab some tea

Okay, welcome back, people without problems. After the partioning is successful, Boot Camp Assistant will ask you to pop in your Windows disc. If you’ve got one of these Macs and 4GB of RAM, you should install the 64-bit version. If not, go 32-bit. Now, all of the pains and glories of installing Windows will actually commence.

After you pick the language and accept the terms, it’ll ask you want kind of Windows installation you want. Pick custom, and you should get a list of hard drives to install Windows on. Make sure you highlight the correct partition and click format, which will transform it to Windows’ native NTFS file system, if you’re doing a partition that’s bigger than 32GB for Windows. Then tell Windows to install itself there. Go make a drink, and come back 20 minutes later.

Welcome to Windows land.

Now what?

To pick between booting into OS X or Windows when you turn on your Mac, start holding down the Alt key before the gray screen appears when you power on. (You gotta be fast.) It’ll give you the option to boot into Mac or Windows. Pick Windows, obviously. Once you’re totally in Windows, like with the desktop and everything, you need to pop in the Snow Leopard installation disc, and run the Boot Camp installer, which puts in place all the drivers Windows needs to actually run decent on your Mac.

After that, you should run Windows Update to grab the latest goods from Microsoft, and I’d suggest, especially if you’re running a unibody MacBook (or Pro) going to Nvidia’s site and downloading their latest Windows 7 drivers for your graphics card (the 9M series for unibody MacBook Pros, 8M for the previous, non-unibody generation).

Overall, Boot Camp 3.0 in Snow Leopard works way better and more smoothly than before: Multitouch trackpads on MacBooks feel way less janky; shortcut keys, like for brightness or volume, work exactly like in OS X (before, you pressed the function key); and you can read your OS X partition’s files from Windows now. (Back in OS X, you won’t be able to write to your Windows partition if it’s the NTFS format.) By the way, the command key, by default, is mapped as the Windows key, so you’re probably gonna annoyingly bring up the start menu a whole bunch. It’s natural.

Ja, es haben schon unzaehlige gebloggt, gepostet oder sonst was, aber seltenst steht da auch das es wirklich so einfach ist! Worum es geht? Das will ich erzaehlen:

Vor einiger Zeit kam SnowLeopard als Nachfolger von Leopard raus. Das Update kostete nur 29Euro, was verlockend war, doch kaum war die CD im Rechner, ging es auch schon nicht weiter. Angeblich war die OsX Partition nicht bootable. Gekennzeichnet wurde dies durch das sogenannte gelbe Dreieck des Todes und kam zustande durch den Fakt, das mein Book auch mit Ubunut und einem Dualboot mittels rEFIt ausgestattet ist. Erste Recherche forderte Loesungen al a “Ubuntu sichern, rEFIt und Ubuntu loeschen, Ubuntu Image zurueckspielen”, doch das war natuerlich unbefriedigend. Irgendwann dann gab es die Loesung. Schauffel hinter der OsX Partition 128MB freien Speicher frei (man nehmen zb gparted unter Linux). Und siehe da, es funktionierte. Warum sagt Apple das einem nicht ist nun die Frage und sie bleibt unbeantwortet. Apple selbst wirbt doch damit das man auch andere Betriebssysteme installieren kann und bietet sogar Software fuer den Dualboot an, also warum hier keine Info? Das das Problem beim testen nicht auftrat kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, schliesslich ist es ein Szenario welches oeftres Verwendung findet. Ich kann da nur sagen FAIL und schade, denn eigentlich kann Apple sowas besser.

Estou bem animado hoje(20/09), os equipamentos que estava esperando chegaram na sexta de manha(pensei em postar alguma coisa  em relacao a isso ontem porem o tempo passou e eu nem percebi).

Bom, vou comecar a citar os acontecimentos desde sexta feira para ter uma ordem cronologica correta e com mais detalhes. : )

Sexta feira de manha chegaram meus equipamentos (hd de 120gb para dar uma aliviada no meu pc que tava sobrecarregado,uma controladora bcd 3000, uma trigger finger *_*, um notebook , um fone de ouvido e 2 caixas de som), fiquei muito mas muito animado com tudo aquilo ali nas minhas maos.

Comecei instalando o hd no pc e  pensei em deixar a melhor parte para o resto do dia.

O primeiro problema surgiu com a instalacao do hd, meu processador tem algumas ”adaptacoes caseiras” as quais foram realizadas em virtude de uma queda que danificou o suporte do meu cooler(os 4 pes do suporte do cooler ficaram espanados entao eu botei silicone nos pes do suporte e fixei nos lugares certo na placa mae) foi ai que comecaram os problemas.O suporte do cooler se soltou na hora que botei o hd, eu estava tao animado que nem dei muita importancia porem o cabo de alimentacao do cooler arrebentou, eu ate soldei o cabo mas como os cabos eram muito unidos acabou que a solda nao pegou bem e dessa vez todos cabos(3) do cooler se soltaram, felizmente eu tinha um outro cooler(com um encaixe totalmente diferente do suporte do cooler do meu pc), fiz novamente umas adptacoes no ”novo cooler” e com a graca de Deus ele funcionou no pc! (um problema solucionado).

Passei algumas musicas e kits de funk para o notebook, empolgado para usar a trigger, foi ai que tive uma surpresa(ruim) o Enigma(programa para configurar a trigger finger de maneira eficiente utilizando todo o potencial da controladora) nao reconheceu a trigger(visto que o software da trigger nao foi instalada por nao ter um software compativel com windows vista 64bits e meu notebook roda com vista 64 bits).Tentei de tudo(reinstalar os softwares,usar a configuracao unica da trigger entre outros)porem nada deu um bom resultado.

Pensei entao - vou instalar a bcd – foi ai que tive mais uma surpresa(ruim) o software da bcd nao possui uma versao compativel com o vista 64  bits.Apesar de tudo nao fiquei desanimado, comecei a configurar as controladoras no meu pc(o com o cooler ”adaptado”) tudo foi tranquilo e alguns pequenos problemas foram resolvidos rapidamente com videos instrutivos e comunidades do orkut!

Recomendo os seguintes videos:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnCo5eyGEU (bcd 3000 com o traktor)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MzXimOc080 (enigma e trigger)

Nao contente com a situacao do notebook pesquisei o que poderia ser feito para que os softwares das controladoras funcionassem no notebook.

Uma das possiveis solucoes seria o DualBoot, que consiste em 2 sistemas instalados e trabalhando um separado do outro.

Quem quiser saber mais sobre o dual boot aqui vai o link

essa seria uma boa alternativa mas eu li topicos de pessoas reclamando do dual boot e que tiveram que formatar suas maquinas(nao estou nem um pouco afim de formatar e consequentemente instalar todos os drivers e por ai vai).

A segunda opcao seria o Windows 7 Ultimate.

O windows 7 pelo que li me parece bem interessante e da para emular arquivos do windows xp nele.

ainda nao instalei o windows 7 ultimate entao meu post acaba por aqui.

esses acontecimentos ocuparam toda a minha sexta feira (das 10 da manha ate as 10)

bevor ich beginne sei vorausgeschickt, das die ganze prozedur auf einem macpro, 2,16ghz geschieht. Die Systemversion: Macosx 10.4.11.

Ich brauche den boot-camp-assistent 1.3 Beta. Offiziell gibt es diese nicht mehr als download von der applesite. Aber google + torrent bringt ergebnisse;) Die quellen sind halt meistens am arsch. aber geduld ist bei allem wichtig!! Desweiteren braucht ihr den refit-installer 0.12 (der bootloader) hier. die backtrack livecd, 3 beta (diese version hat ein installer) hier.

k! zuerst, stelle die die systemzeit auf ca 2007! Sonst startet der bootcamp mit einer "beta abgelaufen". Versichere dich das du tiger auf einer einzigen systempartition installiert hast. bootcamp startet sonst mit einem err0r.

1. installiere bootcamp.dmg und erstelle eine neue partition (meine ist 20gb). breche die installation ab, wenn nach der wincd gefragt wird. Hauptsache die partition ist erstellt;)

2. installiere den refit bootloader.

3. backtrack ins laufwerk und reboot.

jetzt könnte es sein das refit nicht beim ersten reboot erscheint, darum noch einmal booten. wenn das bootmenü erscheint sychronisiere mbr mit gpt. dann kannst du die livecd booten. boote ja nicht die windowspartition.

boote im vesa mode. logge dich mit "root" und "toor" ein.

das kde-terminal erscheint….

tippe:

fdisk/dev/hda

enter

command: p

enter (wir sehen jetzt eine auflistung der verschiedenen partition)
auf /dev/hda3 ist die unbenützte bootcamp.partition, auf die wir bt installieren!

command: t

enter

partition number: 3

enter

Hex code: 83

enter

command: w

enter

unmount /dev/hda3

enter

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3

enter (jetzt ist ein bisschen warten angesagt)

mkdir /mnt/bt3 && mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/bt3

enter ( jetzt haben wir die partition gemountet;)

starte mit startx und wähle im backtrack menu den backtrack installer!!

Install Backtrack to: /mnt/bt3

und wähle real (und nicht live)

das wärs… jetzt braucht es eine weile um die daten zu transferieren. Um die 80% hatte ich das gefühl, das system sei eingefroren aber nur ruhig blut… schlussendlich klappt es schon….

bt ist echt goil!! hehe mein alfa mit realtek-chip wird erkannt und lässt sich injekten….

fdisk/dev/hda

ich wünsche viel spass in der welt der freien netze, lol!!!

2trek

I’ve had ubuntu 9.04 on my labtop for about a week now. I really enjoy ubuntu, it’s functions and it’s layout. The only thing i miss, is World of Warcraft. At first i had an ubuntu dualboot with a partition of 20 gb, but since ubuntu requires around 5 gb itself, there wasn’t enough space for World of Warcraft. The only thing i could do, was to format my labtop with Windows Vista recovery and dualboot again. My initial plan was to partition 100 gb to ubuntu, but it was only allowing me to partition 30 gb. It’s enough though. Now i’ve tried almost everything and nothing, so far, has worked. Now im down to the last alternative installation option – copy it from the Windows partition.

Question: Can i copy the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King folder from inside Ubuntu, or do i need to use some sort of external harddisc? Leave a comment

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1028375.htm

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm

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I fredags for jag ut till Lil’ Banana ute i skogen och stannade där ända tills igår. Vi har spelat The Sims 2 eftersom det inte funnits någon fungerande internet-uppkoppling där, ätit massa onyttigt, kollat på TV och varit nakna. Otroligt mysigt.

Sen när jag väl begav mig hemåt glömde jag mitt tangentbord som jag tagit med mig eftersom Lil’ Banana har hällt någon vätska i sitt. Så även igår blev en datorfri dag.

Det innebar dock tid till en promenad med Sugardaddyn. På med regnjacka för första gången på många år och sedan ut i hällande regn. Men vi överlevde och det hela var en ganska trevlig upplevelse.

Dessutom gav det mig tid till att läsa igenom materialet från LiU som damp ner i brevlådan igår. Ingen information var ny eller hjälpte mig att fatta beslutet huruvida jag ska ge upp min plats i år och vänta med att börja plugga till nästa höst.

Mapp med material från LiU

Men nu idag, efter 8 mils resa (tur och retur) för att hämta ett tangentbord, sitter jag här igen. 158 olästa feed-objekt väntade mig när jag kollade Google Reader. Världen fortsätter tydligen utan min internet-närvaro.

Så förutom att läsa dessa har jag även försökt lösa det lilla problem som uppstod i och med kombinationen USB-tangentbord+dualboot. Det har inte gått särskilt bra. GRUB saknar nämligen känndedom om tangentbordet och det går därmed inte att välja vilket OS som ska starta. Så nu tvingas jag använda Ubuntu 8.04, men det funkar hyftsat det med (trots att det inte är riktigt konfigurerat).

Och nu har jag även tagit tag i min framtida sysselsättning. Ett mail till min alldeles egna Mentor har jag knåpat ihop. Så bollen är rullad och vi får se. Jag hyser dock inga större förhoppningar, men man vet aldrig.

Även lite kikande i fotokatalogen med alla studentklasser som kom idag har jag ägnat mig åt. Lil’ Banana lyckades komma med på en av “vimmelbilderna” vilket jag har väldigt kul åt.

Påkostad fotokatalog - "för jag har tagit studenten!!!"

Nu blir det lite TV-tittande och kanske telefonprat med Sparrismannen. It’s gonna be alright!

There are severeal ways of doing this. One is to have GRUB on the MBR on your harddrive, and booting whatever OS you have in you /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I have Windows XP on my first partition, Slitaz on my second and Arch on my third. This is only on my laptop. My desktop computer looks even worse

Anyway – WinXP requires to be boot from the first partition following the MBR or something. Go figure. And it has its own bootloader, so GRUB must chainload it. I also did this with my first trial of Arch – chainloading a second GRUB install which deals with its respective kernels. This way new kernels will be populated in its own menu which belongs to the correct partition and OS, which keeps my original menu.lst clean(er).

My /boot/grub/menu.lst which resides on my /dev/hda, looks like this. As you can see, I could install GRUB on my Slitaz partition as well – to keep it even cleaner.

# /boot/grub/menu.lst: GRUB boot loader configuration.
default 2 # 3rd entry
timeout 2 # seconds delay

title     Windows
 rootnoverify (hd0,0)
 makeactive
 chainloader +1

title   SliTaz Latest (Kernel 2.6.29.3-slitaz)
 root (hd0,1)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.3-slitaz root=/dev/hda2

title     Slitaz (wireless) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz)
 root (hd0,1)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz root=/dev/hda2

title      Arch Linux  [chainload]
 root   (hd0,2)
 chainloader +1

Quando se instala um sistema, o gerenciador de boot dá preferencia para o SO recém-instalado. No Win7 não é diferente: ainda não abandono meu XP.

Como de praxe, instalo o GNU/Linux depois, não sei se o Seven já reconhece partições Linux, então…

Bom, mas ao que interessa. Instalei o tal do Windows 7 aqui. Primeira coisa configurar o gerenciador de boot para ele e o XP.

Na tela aparecia as opções:

Early version of Windows
Windows 7

Sendo que a opção padrão era, logicamente, o Windows 7…

Pois bem, o dito cujo não tem o arquivo boot.ini… Que tornava a tarefa de configuração do dual boot extremamente simples… Toca a pesquisar…

A configuração é feita via prompt, pelo comando bcdedit.

Depois travar uma batalha com Windows, para minha surpresa, esse comando não funcionou corretamente (ou não funciona ou não está funcionando ainda no Power Shell do Windows).

O caminho deve ser o seguinte:

Acessórios –> Prompt de Comando

Clicar com o direito e executar como administrador.

Feito isso, digite no prompt:

> bcdedit

Será exibido na tela algumas informações sobre o gerenciador de boot. Aqui as coisas que eu queria alterar já foram alteradas, mas os comandos são os mesmos…

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier              {ntldr}
device                  partition=D:
path                    \ntldr
description             Windows XP

Primeiro, eu queria mudar aquele nome de “Early Version of Windows” que aparecia na tela inicial de boot para “Windows XP”.

O comando é o seguinte:

> bcdedit /set {ntldr} description "Windows XP"

Sendo que o {ntldr} é o que está presente no campo identifier da tabelinha. E o description do comando altera esse campo.

Bem, esse foi o primeiro passo. Agora eu queria mudar o sistema padrão de boot, ou seja, configurar para que ele desse o boot pelo XP se o tempo limite se esgotasse e não pelo Seven. Ao digitar o comando bcdedit, outras informações que aparecem são as seguintes:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=D:
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
default                 {ntldr}
resumeobject            {cb2a7fa0-6144-11de-b63d-a0bee2345629}
displayorder            {ntldr} {current}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30

[...]

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 7
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence        {cb2a7fa2-6144-11de-b63d-a0bee2345629}
recoveryenabled         Yes
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {cb2a7fa0-6144-11de-b63d-a0bee2345629}
nx                      OptIn

O que eu marquei com vermelho é SO padrão para o boot. Antes da edição, ele constava como {current}, ou seja, o identifier do Windows 7.

Para fazer a mudança o comando é o seguinte:

> bcdedit /default {ntldr}

E pronto…

Fuce, tem como mudar o timeout, dentre outras coisas, mas como isso não me interessava não postei aqui… Digitando:

> bcdedit /?

Voce tem o help do programa…

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Berdasarkan pengalaman saya, saya pernah dualboot OpenSolaris dengan Ubuntu dan Windows, berikut caranya:

inilah susunan partisi hardisk saya $
Windows XP (sda1)
Ubuntu (sda8)
OpenSolaris (sda4)

Oke untuk menghindari hal yang tak diinginkan mendingan kita install grub masing OS dlu sebelum kita install OpenSolaris. Oke masuk ke sistem yang diinginkan, misal saya langsung ke sistem Ubuntu, di terminal kita ketikkan perintah berikut untuk install grub :

# grub-install /dev/sda8

oke kalo sudah selesai, langsung saja kita reboot sistemnya dan mulai install OpenSolaris kita yang tercinta hehe,

Bila install OpenSolaris sudah selesai, langsung saja kita setting grub-nya, dengan cara buka terminal kita lalu ketikkan perintah berikut ini untuk mengedit file menu.lst

# pfexec gedit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst

jreng jreng akan keluar editor gedit, oke langsung saja kita tambahkan baris perintah berikut ini pada baris terakhir

title Ubuntu GNU/Linux
root (hd0,7)
chainloader +1
make active

oke kalo sudah silahkan di save dan langsung reboot saja untuk membuktikan kebenarannya, hehe. Semoga saja gak da masalah, karena selama ini cara saya aman-aman saja.

oke sekian dlu berbagi pengalamannya, semoga bermanfaat

Thanks, Best Regard

Brokenz
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Ini adalah step-step bagaimana menginstall OpenSolaris di sebuah mesin yang sudah mempunyai dualboot (Windows XP dan Ubuntu) dengan grub Ubuntu sebagai bootloadernya.

• Siapakan satu partisi PRIMARY, karena OpenSolaris tidak dapat diinstall di partisi extended.
• Ubah dulu partisi swap linux yang ada (misal menjadi ext3), karena OpenSolaris tidak bisa diinstall jika telah ada partisi swap linux didepannya. Nggak percaya? coba saja .

Jalankan livecd Ubuntu, kemudian jalankan #sudo gparted dan silahkan format partisi swap linux yang ada (ubah menjadi ext3), tinggal klik kanan dipartisi swap dan klik format to ext3, setelah selesai silahkan restart mesin Anda.

• Boot menggunakan cd OpenSolaris dan install OpenSolaris di partisi yang tadi telah disiapkan, ikuti wizard hingga finish. Jangan lupa pada waktu proses pemilihan lokasi disk yang mau diinstall OpenSolaris, pilih “use partition…” jangan gunakan “whole disk”.
• Setelah selesai instalasi OpenSolaris, maka yang akan muncul adalah grub dari OpenSolaris, yang muncul adalah OpenSolaris dan Windows XP, nah bagaimana menambahkan bootnya Ubuntu?, mudah saja, tinggal tambahkan di /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst menu boot untuk Ubuntu.

Bagaimana caranya jika kita hendak menggunakan grubnya Ubuntu? mudah saja, tinggal install kembali grubnya Ubuntu yang telah ditimpa tadi oleh grubnya OpenSolaris, caranya?

Boot menggunakan livecd Ubuntu, kemudian jalankan command-command berikut :

#sudo grub
grub> root (hd0,4) <– sesuaikan dengan letak partisi root Ubuntu Anda
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

jangan lupa edit sekalian edit /boot/grub/menu.lst dan tambahkan baris-baris kode berikut.

# OpenSolaris Boot
# on /dev/sda4
title OpenSolaris 2008.11
root (hd0,3) (sesuaikan dengan letak partisi OpenSolaris)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

• Jangan lupa aktifkan kembali partisi swap yang tadi kita ubah, jalankan #sudo gparted, pilih partisi swap yang tadi kita ubah, klik kanan dan format to linux swap, setelah selesai jangan lupa klik kanan sekali lagi dan pilih “swapon”.
• Langkah terakhir silahkan restart mesin Anda, dan OpenSolaris telah nongkrong di mesin Anda.

Gampang yah? ya iya lah… klo susah mana bisa saya?