Hi All - I have a couple of whiteboxes each booting ESX 3.5U2 from a single SATA drive (the config below will be different if u have a different setup). I wanted to try and install Windows 2008 along side ESX to practice <cough>HyperV<cough> (its going to happen to the best of us!)
Anyway cut a long story short, in case it helps anyone out, this is how I did it.
1 - Install Windows 2008 first (after removing all other partitions from drive - you can do this from the 2008 setup)
2 - Install ESX however manually create the partitions required. Do not force primary partitions.
3 - ESX will overwrite the Windows 2008 bootloader with Grub
4 - Boot ESX and vi /boot/grub.conf
5 - add the folowing lines to the end of the grub.conf
title Windows 2008
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
6 - reboot and you should be able to see Windows 2008 on the Grub menu alongside ESX.
Cheers
Russ.
Did it make you feel dirty??
The real trick is to do this with Windows 2008 and ESXi, now that would make me feel like I was covered in dirt. Well, maybe not dirt, but dirty just the same.