[OpenIndiana-discuss] multiboot windows7 along hipster 10161030

[Marc Lobelle]

On 01/02/17 21:13, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 11:13:43AM +0100, Marc Lobelle wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I installed hipster on a free partition on a notebook including also windows
>> 7. As far as I remember when I do that with solaris, when booting, I get
>> into grub and I have just to edit  grub or to modify
>> /rpool/boot/grub/grub.cfg to configure the mutiboot.
>>
>> Here I get immediately into a Hipsper screen.
>>
>> What should I do to pass first trough grub (or any other way to boot windows
>> on this machine) ? I want the two OS to run natively, nor virtually one on
>> top of the other.
>>
>> I tried "escape to loader prompt" but I do not know how to boot windows from
>> there nor how to add the possibility to boot windows from the first menu. I
>> tried lsdev where I see the windows partitions. I tried to chain these, as
>> well the solaris 2 partition: in all instances I get "open failed"
>>
>> I guess I am not the first to want a muti boot hipster/windows 7.
>>
>> Can anybody hell me
> I use this:
>
> cat <<EOF > /boot/menu.rc.local
> set mainmenu_caption[7]="[F]edora"
> set mainmenu_command[7]="chain disk0s6:"
> set mainmenu_keycode[7]=102
> set mainansi_caption[7]="^[1mF^[medora"
>
> set mainmenu_caption[8]="[W]indows"
> set mainmenu_command[8]="chain disk0s2:"
> set mainmenu_keycode[8]=119
> set mainansi_caption[8]="^[1mW^[mindows"
> EOF
>
>
> HTH.
>
Thanks Marcel, this works perfectly

Best regards

Marc