Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
Thanks that works just right. I've use lilo for several years and somehow had missed that one could do that so easily.
