Newbie Boot Question.

[Larry Lindstrom]

Hi Folks:

I've been stuck in Windows land for a few years. The longer I work
in that environment the more I miss Solaris development.

I want to get back to Solaris. I hope this Oracle acquisition is a
good thing.

I've purchased a 1 TB SATA drive and installed it in a PC running
Windows XP Multimedia. I then downloaded Solaris a couple of months
ago and installed it on that new drive.

When I boot the PC, Windows comes up.

How do I get the Solaris drive to be selected at boot up, and will
it have some kind of boot manager that will allow me to select either
Solaris or XP?

Thanks
Larry

[Zedex Dragon]

Could have sworn there was a Windows installer that would set up the
GRUB bootloader and allow you to switch between the two. You may need
to do this manually.

[Ian Collins]

It sounds like you have a BIOS issue, XP is in the first boot drive.

--
Ian Collins

[solx]

Why not backup all your important windows files, then install Solaris as
the default boot environment. Then to run windows download virtualbox
and install it as a VirtualBox client.
One of the benefits of using VirtualBox is that I can copy the windows
virtual hard disk prior to running tests or an install which will can
break windows and still recover back to my default environment.

[Zedex Dragon]

As good as VirtualBox is, there are times when you need to run Windows
without the virtualization layer, like when you want full speed access
to the graphics card.

[Larry Lindstrom]

Thanks Ian, and everybody:

I thought I posted a reply already, but I don't see in Google's
forums.

I can get into the BIOS and select the Solaris drive for the boot.
That will start up Solaris.

The system will boot to XP the next time it starts, but I now know
how to select the OS, and that's all I need.

When I have some time I'll look into virtual machines.

I appreciate everybody's assistance.

Larry