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WinXP dual boot Solaris on 2nd hard drive problem...

807559Nov 5 2005 — edited Jan 10 2007
Hi there ppl,

run into a bit of a prob with dual booting winxp and solaris. I have WinXP on 1st hard drive and Solaris on 2nd hard drive 2 (Solaris - partition 1 with slice 0 x86 active, DOS - partition 2 for installing linux later, DOS - partition 3 for fat32 file storage later).

I want to boot to Solaris on drive 2 from the WinXP boot loader on drive 1. Could somebody please tell me exactly how to do this as I've copied the bootsect.sun file from Solaris via floppy to the WinXP C:\ drive, and edited the WinXP boot loader to:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)C:\bootsect.sun="Solaris/x86"

and when I select to boot to Solaris I get:

Windows could not start because the following is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
Please reinstall a copy of the above file

WinXP still boots ok.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks already.
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