On November 5, 2019 5:47:54 PM UTC, Marc Lobelle <[email protected]> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
There's fixmbr.exe (iirc). With legacy win loader you could provide a current mbr's copy (512b file) and so boot oi loader from win loader. With new win10 i guess you get uefi loader and can save oi loader64 file to ESP. Jim -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
