On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:25:22PM -0700, Joshua Uziel wrote: > * Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020815 07:38]: > > You can use SILO if you want (man silo.conf). The only system I have > > with dualboot is setup so I do "boot disk1" or "boot disk" (IOW, just > > using Openboot to select). Using SILO doesn't buy you anything. > > I've had it set up in the past where I could at the SILO prompt run > "linux" to boot Linux and "solaris" to boot Solaris... but this was a > few years ago, and I don't remember what I did. Nikolaj, you might want > to just read the manpage and play with it for a while.
Basically it involves dd'ing the 512byte Solaris boot block and copying the the Solaris kernel to Linux. Bit of a hack that is better handled by Openboot, IMO. Ben -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
