[osol-discuss] Dual-Booting b/t Indiana and Solaris Express

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Yasuhiro Fujitsuki has a simple instruction on how to dual-boot b/t Indiana and 
Solaris Express:

http://blogs.sun.com/thaniwa/entry/ja_dualboot_of_nevada_indiana

The trick is to change the partition number of the existing Solaris partition 
to something else. Then, after the installation of Indiana, change it back to 
0xbf.

But this still does not allow you to dual-boot Solaris with Indiana. You need 
to add the "makeactive" step in the chainloader statement. E.g., if you are 
booting from Solaris Express, then your chainloader to Indiana will look like 
this:

/boot/gurb/menu.lst

. . .

title Switch to OpenSolaris(Indiana) Grub Menu
root (hd0,3)
makeactive
chainloader +1

. . .

And if you are booting from Indiana, then your chainloader will look like this:

/rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst

. . .

title Switch to Solaris Express(Nevada) Grub Menu
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

. . .


In the Solaris Express partition, of course you can have all sorts of Solaris 
slices including SXDE, SXCE, Solaris 10, and various releases thereof.

Thanks again.
 
 
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