RE: [SLUG] Solaris 10 and RH EL 3.0 Dual Boot

[Rowling, Jill]

Google came up with a few suggestions - I haven't tried a dual boot myself
though:
http://supportforum.sun.com/sunos/index.php?t=msg&goto=963&rid=0

Regards,

Jill.

-Original Message-
From: Rajnish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:46 AM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] Solaris 10 and RH EL 3.0 Dual Boot


All,

I've got to setup solaris 10 and RH Enterprise in a dual boot configuration
on x86 platform.

My dual/triple boot is limited to linuxes, and M$-windoze platforms.

As I am totally in the dark on solaris boot setup/process,
I am interested in beginner level to intermediate level information - so any
links (from your firefox bookmarks), and other pointers (whatever level of
relevance) for me to read will be most appreciated.

Please reply to slug, if possible.
Thanking you in anticipation.

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Re: [SLUG] Solaris 10 and RH EL 3.0 Dual Boot

[Shane MacPhillamy]

Have you checked the Grub How-to at 
.

Using the above I have been able to do something similar, using 
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, RH Linux WS, and SuSE 9.2. I used fdisk under linux 
to partition the disk. I think you may be able to extrapolate from 
here, I think the important bit is to use fdisk to set the correct 
Slice/Partition type for Solaris and use the Grub root, makeactive and 
chainloader commands.

The partitioning reported by fdisk looks something like this:
sudo /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda
This disk has both DOS and BSD magic.
Give the 'b' command to go to BSD mode.
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40019582464 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   * 1   973   7815591   a6  OpenBSD
/dev/hda2   974   986104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3   987  1959   7815622+  a5  FreeBSD
/dev/hda4  1960  4865  233424455  Extended
/dev/hda5  1960  2469   4096543+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6  2470  2660   1534176   83  Linux
/dev/hda7  2661  2799   1116486   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8  2800  2863514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9  2864  2927514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10 2928  2991514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda11 2992  3055514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda12 3056  3251   1574338+  83  Linux
/dev/hda13 3252  3264104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda14 3265  3328514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda15 3329  3981   5245191   83  Linux
Command (m for help):
My grub.conf looks like this:
sudo cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#  all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#  root (hd0,1)
#  kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda10
#  initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.4.21-27.0.1.EL)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.img

title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.4.21-4.EL)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img
title SuSE Professional Linux 9.2 (2.6.8-24.10-default)
root (hd0,12)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda15
initrd /initrd
title OpenBSD 3.6
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title FreeBSD 5.0
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
I'm sure this isn't the most elegant, but it does what I want.
Cheers
Shane
On 3 May 2005, at 1:51 PM, Rowling, Jill wrote:
Google came up with a few suggestions - I haven't tried a dual boot 
myself
though:
http://supportforum.sun.com/sunos/index.php?t=msg&goto=963&rid=0

Regards,
Jill.
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Re: [SLUG] Solaris 10 and RH EL 3.0 Dual Boot

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:46:24AM +1000, Rajnish wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've got to setup solaris 10 and RH Enterprise in a dual boot
> configuration on x86 platform.

I installed ubuntu and solaris10 on the same machine. 
I just did the 'dumb' thing and installed ubuntu, then
solaris10.  In different partitions of course.

It works mostly -- boots into the sun boot screen, which gives
me the option of booting from partition 1 (ubuntu).
There are certainly faqs and guides around.  The most
linked one seems to be one at solaris-x86.org,

http://faq.solaris-x86.org/9.html

but that doesn't mention grub :-(

You could always procrastinate:  grub support is coming
to solaris10:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/casper/Weblog/the_end_of_realmode_boot

Matt
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Re: [SLUG] Solaris 10 and RH EL 3.0 Dual Boot

[Rajnish]

Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:46:24AM +1000, Rajnish wrote:
It works mostly -- boots into the sun boot screen, which gives
me the option of booting from partition 1 (ubuntu).
Sort of exactly what I need to do.
You could always procrastinate:
No problems here ... I've yet to see the x86 box on which to
install all this.
 grub support is coming
to solaris10:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/casper/Weblog/the_end_of_realmode_boot
It is solaris 10 I'll be installing !! (does that mean my work just got
easier?). :-)
Thanks.
Matt

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Re: [SLUG] Solaris 10 and RH EL 3.0 Dual Boot

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:04:28PM +1000, Rajnish wrote:
> >http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/casper/Weblog/the_end_of_realmode_boot
> 
> It is solaris 10 I'll be installing !! (does that mean my work just got
> easier?). :-)

yes!  depends on when you need to do it though.

btw, i lied in the previous message.  I needed to hack/reconfig
grub like this guy:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/jd/Weblog/how_i_repair_my_laptop

there is also a multiboot transcript at


http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/rolfk/Weblog/multi_booting_sun_java_workstations



Matt


PS. 'sun java workstations'  heh.  those wacky sun guys

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