Re: [suse-sparc] Choosing partitions for booting Linux with OpenBoot

From: Bruce Forsberg (forsberg@tns.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 15:49:30 PST

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Message-ID: <3C339C8A.2BE31CAD@tns.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 15:49:30 -0800
From: Bruce Forsberg <forsberg@tns.net>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Choosing partitions for booting Linux with OpenBoot

murray atkinson wrote:
>
> I have installed SuSE 7.3 onto a disk which also contains Solaris 8.
> YaST selected /dev/hda5 for the boot partition and /dev/hda8 for root.
>
> Is it possible to get OpenBoot to select /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 (==
> /dev/hda5) for booting ? I am running an Ultra10 with 1 IDE disk.
>
> I assume it is easier to use a second disk and use the following
> OpenBoot command
> boot /pci@1f,1/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@1,0
>

Have a look at my article at www.linuxgazette.com in the
November 2001 issue. It says how to install SUSE linux on an
Ultra 5. It also describes how to boot between Solaris and
Linux. I hope this will help. Also Solaris has good docs
on OpenBoot. I think this is in the Answer Book.

Good Luck,
Bruce Forsberg

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