On 3/16/2011 3:22 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote:
Ok, progress report:
I installed an eSATA pci-express card and everything is fine. On my system
disk, I have WinXP and S11e, and I can choose between them from GRUB.
I have now attached an eSATA external disk and installed Win7 on it. The
external eSATA disk must be powered on upon boot of the PC, otherwise it seems
that the PC will not recognize the eSATA disk.
I installed Win7 on the external disk, and upon reboot, I got to choose between Win7 and "older windows" - which
means WinXP. I can not reach GRUB (i.e. not boot Solaris). In WinXP I could see my Solaris partition in the disk
administration program "Control Panel -> bla bla". I saw that WinXP partition was marked as
"active" so I tried to set Solaris partition as "active" but could not from within WinXP.
I installed Acronis in Win7 and could now mark the Solaris partition as "active" and when
I rebooted, I booted into GRUB! So now I could choose to boot S11e or Windows. If I choose to boot
Windows, I see a another menu where I can choose between Win7 or "Older Windows" - which
means WinXP.
Thus, I have Win7 on an eSATA disk, and because my Solaris partition is
"active" I always boot into GRUB. From there, I can boot which ever OS I want.
If I power off the eSATA disk, I still boot into GRUB and can choose between Solaris and
WinXP. Everything is working just as I wanted.
Over and out.
Oskar,
Glad you got it straightened out.
Your "problem", if you can call it that, was caused by the PC's BIOS
putting the eSATA drive ahead of the internal SATA drives in the disk
boot order. You should be able to go to the BIOS, and look for some
menu option for Boot Order (or something like that). Change the order
to have any "removable" or similar type device boot AFTER the first
internal disk. It will then pick up GRUB on the internal disk, and you
can adjust GRUB to boot Win7 via editing /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst when
booted to S11.
Of course, your solution works, too.
:-)
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