[OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot

[Marcel Telka]

It is. I have OpenIndiana, CentOS, Fedora and Windows 7 on my laptop.  Just
create a separate partition for evety operating system, install the OS into the
partition and make sure the bootloader is installed into partition's boot
record (not MBR). Then you'll have its own bootloader for every OS. You can
easily swap between bootloaders using the chainloader.

This is excerpt from my menu.lst in OI:

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title OpenIndiana Development oi_151.1.7 X86 (powered by illumos)
findroot (pool_rpool,4,a)
bootfs rpool/ROOT/oi_151a7

splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground FF0000
background A8A8A8
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics -k
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive

title Windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

title CentOS
        rootnoverify (hd0,5)
        chainloader +1

title Fedora
        rootnoverify (hd0,7)
        chainloader +1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


HTH.

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:52:35AM -0800, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> My advice is don't.  Do one of the following:
> 
> Use a USB disk and use the BIOS to boot from that.  You'll need to always plug the disk into the same USB port, but otherwise it's quite painless.  I do this w/ my Solaris laptop when I want to boot Linux.
> 
> Use removable drive caddies and a socket.  This is what I do on all my desktop systems.
> 
> Install a VM hypervisor, e.g. VirtualBox.
>  
> 
> 10+ years ago I made a system boot FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris.  It took over a dozen install attempts.  After that I switched to drive caddies.
> 
> Have Fun!
> Reg
> 
> --- On Sat, 12/22/12, mattias <mj at mjw.se> wrote:
> 
> > From: mattias <mj at mjw.se>
> > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dualboot
> > To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> > Date: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 1:36 PM
> > are it possible to dualbot oi and
> > windows?
> > if so
> > what should i select when partioning
> > 
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