[Sussex] Dual Boot

John Crowhurst fyremoon at fyremoon.net
Thu Mar 6 14:38:00 UTC 2003


> Hi
>
> On 06 March 2003 at 12:43 John Crowhurst wrote:
> <snip>
>> If you change the fstab to point to /dev/hdb* that would imply that
>> the linux install is on a second drive. Its not as simple as that
>> though, the system would work, but the boot loader would have to be
>> changed to reflect the new mount point.
>
> This is a nice way of configuring the system.  Back in the days when I
> was  using Solaris x86 & Win95 (for gaming only) I had configured my
> system that way.  If I could get Sun's x86 boot loader to work I'm sure
> lilo will support
> that.

Its possible to use lilo as the loader for Sun x86, I did a quick search
on google:
http://www.unixguide.net/sun/x86faq/9.6.shtml
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/solaris/FAQS/

--
John






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