From: user@example.net   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Thursday 03 July 2008 07:20, someone who identifies as *J.O. Aho* wrote   
   > in /alt.os.linux.gentoo:/   
      
   >>   2. Boot loader seemed to not be installed (could it be that some   
   >> dependency was broken, I didn't fancy to look up all the dependencies   
   >> for 35 packages).   
   >   
   > Definitely a shortcoming...   
      
   It turned out that OpenSolaris managed to install grub on my second hard   
   drive, discovered that when I played around trying to get things work   
   after my second installation.   
      
      
   >>   3. The resolution of the screen was a bit too high, I had to have my   
   >> face more or less in the monitor to see what it was written.   
   >   
   > Not quite ideal either...   
      
   There seemed to be a simple work around for this, which i didn't think   
   of the first time, ctrl-alt-+ and you change the X Windows System   
   resolution, this way I got a better working environment.   
      
      
   >> There could be a lot more done on the installer, to make it better, yet   
   >> no reflections on the opensolaris itself, as I haven't managed to boot   
   >> into it yet, as boot loader missing.   
   >   
   > One should be able to boot Solaris using GRUB in the MBR, though.  The   
   > GRUB /info/ manual has a section on that, I believe.   
      
   I did in my attempts to boot opensolaris, I did boot the install media   
   in rescue mode, thought of trying to run grub-install, but nothing like   
   that or grub installed on the machine, it seems like the grub   
   installation is done from the install media, with the 1.5 and 2 stage   
   files installed in the /boot.   
      
      
   > Either way, it would seem that OpenSolaris is by far not as robust as   
   > GNU/Linux, and given it's legacy, this is really surprising. :-/   
      
   There is a lot to do with the installer, I would say it's back on the   
   level as Linux had back in the mid-late 90's. Even Solaris itself have a   
   difficult installer procedure (at least when I used it back at version   
   8), maybe in 10 years time, when the community of users is larger, they   
   may start to get a user friendly installer that don't use java.   
      
      
   I have now booted into opensolaris once, I still have things to do, see   
   if my network card will work, how I will get bash installed with auto   
   complete (hate when I can't use tab when writing file paths), when i got   
   those working, then it will be time to try to get xVM to work, install a   
   couple of Gentoo domU, just wish it had been a Linux dom0, had been a   
   lot easier to find useful documentation online.   
      
      
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