Making Solaris servers dual-boot

Hi,
I want to know if it is possible to make Solaris servers dual-boot?
i.e. So that they can boot different versions of Solaris from different disks.

Is this a Web Server question? Try posting the question on the Solaris forum. If there are more people like me on the Web Server forum, we won't be of any help to you here. :-)
Good luck.
dailysun

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