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I have solaris x86 2.5 installed on my first hd as a master drive on
the first ide port.  I have windows95 installed on my 2nd hd as a
master on the 2nd ide port.  (I have my cdrom as a slave on the 1st
ide port.)

There does not seem to be a way that I can boot windows.  It would
seem I should configure the /etc/bootrc file, but I'm not sure how.  Or
is there another way?

Can anyone tell me how I can tell solaris to let me boot win95?

Thanks,
Ivan
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>I have solaris x86 2.5 installed on my first hd as a master drive on
>the first ide port.  I have windows95 installed on my 2nd hd as a
>master on the 2nd ide port.  (I have my cdrom as a slave on the 1st
>ide port.)

>There does not seem to be a way that I can boot windows.  It would
>seem I should configure the /etc/bootrc file, but I'm not sure how.  Or
>is there another way?

The Solaris boot diskette can boot operating systems from any drive,
so you could use that, but it's not fast. (You can make it a lot
faster by copying the disk, and renaming all the *.bef files except
the one you want to something else, e.g. *.xxx).

I don't know if Win95 supports being booted off a drive other than
the first - not all OS's do. (Solaris does.)

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>Can anyone tell me how I can tell solaris to let me boot win95?

You might also have to swap your drives so Win95 is on the first one,
if it doesn't support being on any other (you can try this out using
the Solaris boot floppy). If you do swap, you will also have to change
your /etc/vfstab and /etc/bootrc files on Solaris to allow for it
being the other disk.

Good luck,
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What you need is a "boot loader" program, like the one that comes with
the LInux LOader (LILO).  It installs a program on the first drive
(C:), outside of the normal C: disk space - in the MBR (Master Boot
Record).  When the PC begins booting, it loads runs program.  The boot
loader can then tell the PC to start loading boot information ... even
from a secondary disk.

I have seen commercial boot loaders that are advertised to work with
many OS'es.

I have been using Linux and LILO for almost 3 years now, without any
major problems.  I have used it with up to 3 bootable partitions:
Linux, MS-DOG, and UnixWare.

Oh ... one problem I did have was when I tried to load Windoze '95.
It messed with the low-level formatting of my SCSI disk, but luckily,
I only had to re-do the MS-DOG partition.

Hope this helps,

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Works for me.... Maybe I was lucky. ?

Good luck, may the schwartz be with ya. Kevin