How can I use OS-BS or System Selector to boot Solaris/x86?
Grab OS-BS [a free boot manager distributed with FreeBSD] from:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe
Or (newer) from:
http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html
Assuming you've already got Linux installed and enough free space for
Solaris, go ahead and install the latter. Solaris then becomes the
Active partition. Follow that installation with OS-BS and configure to
"set startup id", which changes the Active partition on-the-fly.
OS-BS comes in a newer, commercial version, that I use, called
System Selector in the US, De'marreur in France, and Boot Manager
elsewhere. See
http://www.BootManager.com/
System Selector needs a small FAT or FAT32 partition to install on.
You also need to either boot a version of DOS or Windows to read the
install files on the CD-ROM drive. Note that this partition doesn't
need to be bootable or active--it is only used to hold files used
by System Selector. System Selector replaces the previous
boot block in the MFT and boots directly from the drive's MFT.
When System Selector's installation menu comes up, you won't see
Solaris listed among the selections under the "System" tab, as you
most other systems that may be on your system, such as Windows or
Linux. Instead, go to the "Partitions" tab and select the partition
marked "Linux Swap." This is actually the Solaris Partition (both
Solaris and Linux Swap partitions share the same code, 83 hex).
Select it and under the "Properties" tab make sure you check "Assign
active ID to this system [partition] before booting."
Update:
An open-source solution,
GAG,
http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm
provides a graphical boot menu
which works with Solaris Intel and other Intel-based operating systems.
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