[H-GEN] Dual booting solaris / linux

[Paul Gearon]

> Hey all,
> 
> I've got a nice little Sparc LX here, that I've got both Solaris and
> Linux (Redhat 5.2) installed on.  The documentation on how to get silo
> to boot solaris is sketchy, to say the least. :)
> 
> Solaris is on scsi id 3 (/dev/sdb), and linux is on scsi id 2
> (/dev/sda).  What would be the entry in silo.conf to allow it to boot
> solaris?

According to /usr/doc/silo-0.7.2/docs/README...

"SILO from 0.6.5 up supports loading of Solaris kernels without using the
saved boot loader. Either put into your silo.conf something like
image = 4/kernel/unix
        label = solaris-single
        literal = "-s"
        solaris

(the name is relative to /platform/your_platform_name_here/ in case of
Solaris 2.5+), keyword solaris says that the kernel needs special handling
(otherwise it won't be loaded). On the command line, you can either type
somewhere between parameters a keyword solaris, or if the name is
/kernel/unix, you don't have to type anything. You should have your solaris
ufsboot in either /ufsboot or /platform/your_platform_name_here/ of the
partition you're booting solaris from."

>From memory that number "4" is the partition number.  It's been a while
since I was conversant with all of this.

Hope it helps.

Paul Gearon
gearon at computer.org

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