[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is it possible to arrange for dual booting oi hipster and Solaris 11.3 on a single disk?

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Hans J Albertsson <
hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm  just wondering.


I would say not.

If you just have the one disk, then you're limited to them sharing the same
disk partition (there are limitations about there only being one solaris
partition
on a disk) and thus they have to be in the same zfs pool.

Which means you have to create the root pool with zfs version 28 and make
sure neither OS does a zpool upgrade.

But the likely killer is that they use different bootloaders. S11.3 is GRUB2
and OI is either legacy grub or the new loader.

If they were on different disks you would be OK, because you just chain
one from the other, but needing two different bootloaders on the same disk
would be a bit of an insurmountable problem.

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