Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:58:00 -0800 From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com> Message-ID: <20001212215800.E23107@gimp.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Dumb SILO question
* Robert V. Sigillito <rsigill@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu> [001212 20:46]:
> I've installed SuSe 7.0 on an Ultra 5 at work and really like it. So I
> decided to try it at home on my way slower Sparc 5 110mhz. The Sparc 5 has
> two 9gb disks. The bottom disk (disk1 sd@3, SuSe defined 'sdc') has
> Solaris 8 on it. The top disk (disk2 sd@1, SuSe defined 'sda') I've
> installed SuSe 7.0. When it came to the question at installation about
> where to put SILO I opted for sda, the disk I was installing SuSe on. The
> rest of the installation went fine. I logged in and decided to reboot.
>
> After rebooting I quickly did the <Stop>-A and tried to boot Linux. From
> the 'ok' prompt I tried 'boot disk2:a', 'boot disk:b', and on and on. I'm
> missing something simple because I never got anywhere.
If your Linux disk is sd@1, then it should be "disk1" that you attempt
to boot on the machine (assuming there's a proper "devalias" for it).
Also, you should hopefully have made a /boot directory for your
kernel, and withing the first 1gb of your 9gb disk. If you have issues
booting, then boot off the CD and into linuxrc, then "boot and installed
system" (or something like that) and check your /etc/silo.conf file.
> As a side note, when the installation asks if you want to install SILO in
> the MBR is that possible on a Sun hard disk? Will doing that screw up
> Solaris and not allow it to boot?
Yes, it's possible... and it'll only mess things up if you have them
both on the same disk, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
> And if I may push my luck and ask another question, I plan on purchasing
> an Ultra 5 that I will install a 30gb IDE drive in. I'd like to run three
> OS's: SuSe 7.0, Solaris 8 and Solaris 2.6. What would be the best course
> of action to accomplish that? Install SuSe 7.0 first with SILO and then
> the two versions of Solaris?
I would personally attempt the two Solaris installations first. On an
Ultra, having /boot within the first 1gb is not necesary (in fact, I
think the limit is some huge amount that is currently not exceedable).
Also, like Windows on x86, Solaris is not developed with the notion of
having other OSes installed with it on the same machine (well, not on
SPARC at least). What's nice is that both Linux and Solaris have
read-only fs support for each other, so they coexist nicely.
> Sorry for all the questions.
We may never forgive you. ;)
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