[wellylug] Solaris 10 dual booting

[Geraint Jones]

Ok, 

I can only really see one way of doing it

Boot solaris
Copy /usr/lib/fs/ufs/mboot to a floppy
Boot Windows copy a:\mboot to c:\SolarisBoot.bin
Reboot from the Windows CD
Go into the recovery console and type : fixmbr
And then : fixboot
Now reboot into windows, open c:\boot.ini in notepad and add this line
under the {operating systems} section
C:\SolarisBoot.bin="Sun Solaris 10"

You can change defaults, timeouts and all the other bits in boot.ini

Hope this helps

Geraint

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jamie Dobbs
Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 11:26 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: RE: [wellylug] Solaris 10 dual booting

I still cannot see anything that allows me to change the default booted
Operating System from Solaris 10 to anything else, maybe I'm just too
stupid to see it, but after reading the document multiple times I can't
see anything.
It talks about booting another OS which I can do, what I am wanting to
do
is change the DEFAULT booted OS.

> Boot manager
> Programs bootblk and strap.com, loaded in result of primary boot, are
> very similar. Both contain Solaris boot manager code, which reads
> current disk partition information, and in case there is more than one
> primary partition, displays the table with all available partitions.
It
> gives an opportunity to reboot another partition, in other words,
> another operating system. The default one is Solaris. The default
> timeout to make selection is 30 seconds. The difference between
bootblk
> and strap.com is that, the first one is placed on UFS file systems and
> can not be configured, while the second is placed on FAT file systems
> (floppy disk or x86 Boot partition) and the timeout may be set in
> /solaris/strap.rc file.
>
> Its all here : http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/iii/1.html
>
> Geraint
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jamie Dobbs
> Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 10:52 a.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] Solaris 10 dual booting
>
> Lots of information in there, but nothing of any apparent use for this
> issue. (ar at least nothing that I can see)
>
>> http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/
>>
>> Geraint
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jamie
Dobbs
>> Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 6:36 a.m.
>> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Solaris 10 dual booting
>>
>> Whichever the default is - its a textual one
>>
>> Rob Giltrap wrote:
>>
>>> What boot loader are you using? The Solaris boot loader?
>>>
>>> Jamie Dobbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone advise what file I edit to change the default booted OS
> on
>>
>>>> a machine with Windows and Solaris 10 on it?
>>>> I've googled for about an hour on this but haven't been able to
find
>>>> out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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