Partitioning, MBR updates and details like that aside, this is some example 
about BE menu:

root@test:/home/tsoome# bootadm list-menu 
the location for the active menu is: /rpool/boot/menu.lst
INDEX NAME                            DEVICE                                    
 TYPE   DEFAULT
0     Disk1                           disk0p1:/efi/boot/bootx64.efi             
 chain     -
1     Disk2                           disk2:                                    
 chain     -
2     Disk3_ufs                       disk3s1a:                                 
 bootfs    -
3     openindiana-2021:04:29          rpool/ROOT/openindiana-2021:04:29         
 bootfs    *


and corresponding menu file:

root@test:/home/tsoome# more /rpool/boot/menu.lst 
title Disk1
chain disk0p1:/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
title Disk2
chain disk2:
title Disk3_ufs
bootfs disk3s1a:
title openindiana-2021:04:29
bootfs rpool/ROOT/openindiana-2021:04:29


Here, Disk1 and Disk2 are examples of chain loading, Disk1 is example of UEFI 
and Disk2 is example of BIOS boot. Disk3_ufs is example of illumos boot from 
ufs or pcfs file system (fstype needs to be set still).

bootadm can also list and manage the menu entries, but the syntax is too 
complicated and [bootadm] needs work.

rgds,
toomas


> On 3. May 2021, at 17:26, Judah Richardson <judahrichard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If the PC BIOS, boot disk size, and the other OSes support legacy boot,
> yes. Otherwise I wouldn't say it's not possible but you're likely to
> encounter significant difficulty.
> 
> On Mon, May 3, 2021, 09:18 Yassine Chaouche <a.chaou...@algerian-radio.dz>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello OpenIndiana users,
>> 
>> Is it possible to install OpenIndiana alongside other
>> OSes on same PC with a single disk ? I don't know if
>> disk partitions exist in the Unix world or if is sees
>> the disks differently (I heard of slices instead of
>> partitions in some OSes)
>> 
>> Feedback appreciated.
>> 
>> -- Yassine.
>> 
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