George, All, thanks a lot for all these suggestions! I'll try them when return from a vacation :-)))
nikolaj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sageev George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nikolaj Uzunow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 4:19 AM Subject: Re: dual boot on Ultra SPARC > Nikolaj: > There is a Sun Web page describing how to create > aliases within the PROM for booting your Linux partition > or your Solaris partition (as simple as typing solaris > or linux at the boot prompt) > > http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/docs/dual_boot.html > > If you want to have your Linux partition come up by > default, and present you with a SILO menu with > Solaris as an option, check out the SILO page at Sourceforge: > > http://silo.sourceforge.net/ > > If you are going to go the SILO route, then you'll have to > change the settings in your PROM to load > your Linux partitition by default. Of course, SILO will have > to be configured to boot the Solaris partition. The SILO > page at Sourceforge should help with that. My SILO > configuration has the following lines added: > > other=/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 4000/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1 > label = solaris > > This simply tells SILO to boot that device range > (and it's the equivalent of typing boot disk:a at > my boot prompt). It works for me, but I still > just use the PROM boot prompt. > > Just remember to never allow the boot block of the Solaris > partition to be overwritten. All that SILO can do for > Solaris partition on UltraSPARC computer is boot a > device range that has an intact boot block. When > I accidentally let SILO overwrite the boot block on > my Solaris booting partition, I had to reinstall > the boot block using the Sun installation CD. > > The SILO page at Sourceforge seems to indicate > that using a bootblock that you obtained by dd'ing > to boot block from your Solaris partition will not > work on UltraSPARC based machines. I haven't > tried this, so I don't know. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nikolaj Uzunow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:41 PM > Subject: dual boot on Ultra SPARC > > > > hi, > > > > did anyone tried to prepare Solaris[9]/Debian[woody] dual boot on Ultra > > SPARC? > > is this only a SILO configuration thing, or I need to play with OpenBoot > > also? > > > > for now I have'boot disk:b' to bring the Debian up. > > > > thanks! > > Nikolaj > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
