Dual booting. solaris+ windows

padmaraj · 02-08-2007, 05:58 AM

hi,
I have a lap top and have already configured dual booting with windows and linux.
I want to know if it is possible to dual boot solaris along with windows and linux.say i load windpws first then solaris and then linux , will it work?
is there any third party software or tool that need to be used other than grub.
i paln to load solaris 10 (x86).

thanks and regards
PJ Padmaraj

vermaden · 02-08-2007, 06:27 AM

You can try gag or lilo also:
http://gag.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO_(boot_loader)

jlliagre · 02-08-2007, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by padmaraj

hi,
I have a lap top and have already configured dual booting with windows and linux.
I want to know if it is possible to dual boot solaris along with windows and linux.say i load windpws first then solaris and then linux , will it work?

Yes, provided your laptop is supported.
By the way, that would be triple-boot, not dual

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is there any third party software or tool that need to be used other than grub.

No, Solaris bundled grub can boot all of them.

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i paln to load solaris 10 (x86).

For a laptop, better to use SolarisExpress and frkit.

abs_77 · 02-08-2007, 11:52 AM

I would recommend you to download the OpenSolaris learning starter kit. In this you will find a nice practical movie clip for resizing your current working Windows NTFS partition for making space for solaris and other OSs

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/starter_kit/downloads/