On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:54:28PM +0200, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm doing a network install of Woody on my Ultra 5, and I hope to be able > to dualboot to Solaris 9, which is already on it. I have read some FAQs, but > I guess I have made a few silly false beginner assumptions. > > This is my disk: > > Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39702 cylinders > > Device Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 17354 27512 5119632 2 SunOS root > /dev/hda2 0 1041 524664 3 SunOS swap > /dev/hda3 0 39702 20009808 5 Whole disk > /dev/hda4 1041 17354 8221752 83 Linux native > /dev/hda8 27512 39702 6143760 8 SunOS home > > > First off, is this setup any wise? Can I share the swap (I think yes) and > home (according to Google in 2001, no) partitions? > > This is my self-created /target/etc/silo.conf, sitting in tty2 in the Debian > installer: > > partition=4 > root=/dev/hda4 > timeout=100 > image=/vmlinuz > label=linux > read-only > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=linux-old > read-only > other=/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0:a > label=solaris > > # silo -r /target -f > /etc/silo.conf appears to be valid > # > > No sign of real writing.. When I reboot, 'boot disk:d' at the prom returns > that > 'the loaded file appears not to be executable'. That is a FAQ, but the > answers on > Google do not indicate how to solve it. 'boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:d' > gives the same. 'boot net root=/dev/hda4' just starts the installer from > scratch > over again.. :( > I have thought of using 'partition=1', but in that case I think I might not be > able to boot Solaris anymore.
Yicks. I don't have a debian/sparc box available to me this second, but I did do this recently, and any attempt to get fancy, like your silo.conf above, never worked. I was using sol9 as well, it just wouldn't boot. I tried a lot of things, and no go. I eventually ended up going with the silo -t option, and that was that. At least in sol9, it wants to be the mbr and ufsboot or genunix doesn't want to be mucked with at all. So after re-installing solaris ~:^((( I just resigned myself to booting linux with "boot disk:d" at the OBP prompt, and just plain boot or boot disk for solaris. I don't get to boot whatever I want from silo, but it works and I could get on with my, well, work. Check out the man page for silo.conf for further details. To instantiate, I installed Woody *first*, leaving a partition for solaris and a partition for solaris swap. Yup, no shared swap partition. If you simply must share a swap partition, then you have to configure linux to boot up without swap, and have a boot time script of your own perform an mkswap and a swapon, rather than doing it from the fstab file. Sharing a swap partition also will have implications for processing crash dumps, which is of big importance to me. <advocacy> Having Woody on my SPARCblade CP1500 cPCI systems is sweet. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet. </advocacy> No, SPARCblade is not SunBlade. I wish. a