From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Van Beveren Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:33:11 +0000 Subject: Dual-Boot Solaris/Linux Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org We have the 1.1.9 release as of 12-30-98, and have successfully installed from Bootable CDROM and via NFS + Boot Floppy. Both installations have the same issue. Solaris 2.6 is installed on a separate disk, and when we get to the bootloader screen, we select /dev/sda1 as a desired alternate boot device, and label it "SOLARIS2.6". The next screen says "mount failed". We then clear the label on the laternate boot device, so linux is the only selected device, and get the same error. The bottom line is we cannot successfully get through the boot loader screen when the Solaris disk is present. When I disconnect the Solaris disk altogether, installation works fine. Is this a known problem? We would manually set up the silo.conf file, but it seems that man page is missing, and we do not have a reference point. Does someone have a silo.conf with the same or a similar configuration that we can start from, and detailed silo.conf documentation? I would also be interested in a silo.conf file with both Solaris and Linux on the same disk. Configuration is: Ultra AXi motherboard Onboard SCSI Toshiba 32X SCSI CD Seagate ST34573W 4.5GB Barracuda for Solaris Seagate ST39173W 9.1GB Barracuda for Linux Mach64 video Sun kbd/mouse 333MHz CPU 256MB RAM Thanks in advance to all. David Van Beveren EIS Computers, Inc.