Installing new OS on new hard disk - multiboot

Hello,
I am somewhat new to Solaris and I am progressively learning new things every day and working towards my SCSA.
I have a Sun Ultra 24 work station running Solaris 10. I am planning on adding an additional hard drive and installing Windows XP on it. If possible, my goal is to be able to choose an OS at startup.
I have read [http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/| but there are a few things I am not clear on... they somewhat mention what I am trying to do but the scenarios I read about is installing Solaris 10 with a new hard disk on an existing Windows installation. I am trying to do the opposite!
Is it possible to add a new blank hard drive restart the PC and then boot from the cd-rom to install XP without damaging my current Solaris 10 installation? and also what do I need to do in order choose an OS at startup.
I am concerned that if I do this, windows will change the MBR of my primary hard drive (the one with Solaris) and allow only windows to boot.
Look forward to your replies, thanks!
-Mario Alejandro

alan.pae wrote:
It's much easier if you do this in the reverse order. Windows first then Solaris.
If not Windows will declare itself to be the only OS in existence as per Microsoft norms and will blindly ignore anything else on the disk.
So you will need to mark the Solaris partition as active and reboot.
After that add the following to your menu.lst file located in the /boot directory:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
===
modify 0,0 as necessary.
alanThat's maybe what you want that Windows doesn't see the other disk.
If you put Solaris first then the Grub bootloader is also on the first drive.
Unless you would change this in your BIOS (boot from the 2nd), starting GRUB on the 2nd drive then
chainload to the first.

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