Hi Marc

You should be able to upgrade to windows 10 without changing the
bootblock manually. You will need a specific version of the windows 10
iso however for it to still work. And not all notebooks are supported.
To change the bootblock manually you could try system-rescue-cd [0]. To
fix the bootblock back again you can use "bootadm install-bootloader"
see the man page for details.

Please be aware that all windows tips are from memory and might not work.

[0] http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/

Greetings
Till

On 05.11.19 18:47, Marc Lobelle wrote:
> hello,
> 
> There are 3 partitions on my notebook, 2 related to windows, where an 
> old windows 7 resides and one with OI-Hipster (up to date). Very long 
> ago I had first installed Windows 7, then Solaris  11, which replaced 
> the windows boot block with a multiboot. Recently, I replaced Solaris 11 
> by OI-Hipster.
> 
> Now I hear that Microsoft will shortly drop support for Windows 7, thus 
> I tried to upgrade it to windows 10, but this does not work, probably 
> because Windows does not find his own boot block.
> 
> Is there a simple way to replace OI-hipster's boot block by the one of 
> windows and later back to OI-Hipster's after upgrading windows ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Marc
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