On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:12:16PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > My installation is a dual boot setup with Solaris 8 (intel) on first > master and Debian on second master. Solaris is very particular about > its boot sector I think. So I'm booting from the floppy I made during > install. Each boot takes 4-5 minutes, which is very slow. Seems it > might mean some kind of problem. > > I want to set up booting from disk but don't want to jackup the > solaris bootabililty. Anyone here familiar with dual booting with > solaris.
No need to. Use lilo to set install a boot block on a floppy wich starts a kernel on the /boot on second master. It's fast enough for you. The significant line in /etc/lilo.conf is boot=/dev/fd0 Good Luck
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