[Sussex] Dual Boot

[Steve Dobson]

John

On 06 March 2003 at 14:37 John Crowhurst wrote:
> > 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/

It is now and it was then.  But I used the loader supplied by Sun.

Steve