[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiboot on PC

[Toomas Soome]

> On 3. May 2021, at 20:10, Francis.D <angetao at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Simple example easy way multiboot with linux system
> 
> http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/how-to-install-OpenBSD-in-a-computer-with-Linux-and-Grub2-td41148.html
> 
> 
> apply same for OI


Only simple way is to use chainloader (point it to OS partition), then you are not depending on file system reader implementation etc etc.

rgds,
toomas


> 
> Le lun. 3 mai 2021 à 13:06, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> a écrit :
> 
>> Partitioning, MBR updates and details like that aside, this is some
>> example about BE menu:
>> 
>> root at 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 at 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 <judahrichardson at 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.chaouche at 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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