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How to dual boot Solaris and Windows on x86?

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SQ

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Sep 15, 2008, 4:26:29 PM9/15/08
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I have an Sun Ultra 40-M2 (x86) with 3 SAS drives.

First two drives I will use for Solaris 10 and mirror them using
Solaris Volume Manager.

The 3rd hard drive contains Windows XP. I want to be given the option
of booting into Windows. By default, I want to boot into Solaris 10.

How do I enable all this? Is there a configuration file I need to edit
in Solaris?

Thad Floryan

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Sep 15, 2008, 8:13:45 PM9/15/08
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This may give you some insight:

<http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/multiboot_laptop.jsp>

along with:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record>
<http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwtab.html>
<http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html>
<http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~bms/pdfDoc/MultibootOSInstallation.pdf>
<http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0905/819-2889.pdf>
<http://www.ranish.com/part/>

The 819-2889.pdf PDF document is entitled
"CONFIGURING MULTIBOOT ENVIRONMENTS ON SUN X64 SYSTEMS WITH AMD
OPTERON PROCESSORS" but the info is applicable to all OSs using grub
and its appendix describes a multiboot solution using the Ranish
partition manager to support more than four OSs (in case you're
attempting something "interesting" with your new 1TB disk :-)

Let's not overlook the grub docs (in many formats: text, PDF, HTML,
etc.):

<http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/>

SQ

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Sep 16, 2008, 3:37:06 PM9/16/08
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Thanks for the info.
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