Dual Boot-Two Disks

Hi,
I have 2 drives to use and have windows installed on one and solaris on the other. When I am in solaris it will not recognise the windows disk as any type known. I've had solaris loaded on this disk once before, but it has windows now. I would like to at boot thru the solaris menu be able to choose which disk I boot off of without going thru the hardware change menu. Is there an easy way to add the second disk into the 4 part menu during boot?

>Satellite Pro L40 - How to make a dual boot with two Recovery disks?
Short answer: you cannot do this. Maybe if you have two HDDs (I didnt tried this) but as far as I know your SP L40 has only one.
Ask this smart guy how to do this. Maybe he has some useful tip.

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+----------------------------------+
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+----------------------------------+
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| | | |
| | | |
| +------------------------------+ |
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+----------------------------------+
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| | / for Arch 2 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +------------------------------+ |
+----------------------------------+
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[solved] Can't set up dual boot Arch + Win 7 on separated disks

Hello everybody,
I'm new to this amazing project as I installed Arch just two days ago (and everything works like a charm in linux).
Anyway I have a problem and I'm very sorry to bother you with another question such this, but I tried everything and I accurately read the wiki.
The problem is that I can't manage to create a dual boot in grub with Arch on the first sata disk and Windows 7 on the second disk.
Before trying Arch I used ubuntu 10.10 dual boot with the same Windows 7 on the same secondary disk (the pc is a dell XPS L702X 17' laptop with, of course, dual disk bay) using GRUB2 which was automatically installed during ubuntu installation.
I tried to chainload windows disk in grub using map command to let windows think it's on the primary disk and not on second one.
At start I just had "BOOTMGR missing" error, then I put windows disk as primary removing arch disk and I repaired its bootloader: windows could boot then.
When I substituted disks and tried to boot, Windows 7 loading screen appeared and immediately I had a blue screen of death (or something similar) which anyway disappeared in less than a second (I was not able to read anything from that screen)
Now, when I try to boot windows either with grub or trying to enable boot straight from second hard drive in BIOS, I receive an error stating that it is necessary to use the windows repair disk to fix problems.
My question is: how can I finally fix this situation?
It would be quite important, for me, to not format neither of the disks, and I could even accept to renounce booting windows from grub as it would be ok even changing BIOS priority every time I need to use windows 7.
I really apologize for my annoying question but I really tried everything I could find without success; sorry for my poor english, too.
Anyway, this distribution seems just amazing to me! Thanks for your time.
Luca
Last edited by enigmatichus (2011-12-27 02:05:14)

It worked!!! Actually I don't know what changed, I proceeded removing the first disk (arch) WITHOUT, this time, changing the position of the windows disk. I used windows 7 DVD to repair the second disk. It tooks several attempts since it failed without specifying the problem. Eventually, I was able to boot windows 7, everything worked. Then, I plugged the primary linux hard drive and booted into arch, where I used "grub-install /dev/sda" as root. It executed without errors, but when I checked menu.lst file, surprisingly I discovered that it was not changed at all by grub-install.
Anyway it must have detected windows on /dev/sdb, since I am now able to boot both arch and windows without problems.
It was a weird situation, but anyway it worked well!! Thank you for the support, I really appreciate!
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Hi,
I am trying to setup DUAL Boot Windows-XP Archlinux on a Compaq nc6320
I want to load linux from the Window NT loader I have only a " - " in the left uppercorner when I select --linux--
[boot loader]
timeout=30
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Sda2
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Last edited by go4it (2007-01-29 15:29:33)

Whenever I've put linux on the same disk as windows I've always used lilo to handle the booting by installing the linux bootloader to the "/root" of the linux partition, before that I would flag the partition as bootable with cfdisk while I was doing my partitioning and untoggle the boot flag for windows, this was also reversible so it never harmed my windows bootloader.
I would make an entry like this if I was using lilo:
# Partition 3: Windows XP Home
other = /dev/hda1
label = WinXP
and then run lilo for the change to stick.
In grub I would imagine you would have to add something like this:
title WindowsXP
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#boot=/dev/sda2
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title Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
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Last edited by RabidWolf (2007-01-31 12:32:39)

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