[wellylug] Solaris 10 dual booting

[Jamie Dobbs]

Thanks Geraint, I will give that a try this evening a see how it goes.

> 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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