Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:17:19 -0500 From: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-SPARC <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD and Solaris? Message-ID: <3D32BD4F.90502@iaces.com> References: <20020714225342.E58350-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Completely unneeded. This is supported by default from openboot. At the ok prompt, you just the disk you want to boot from ok boot disk1 If needed you can get down into what partition you want to boot from, and what file to boot. You can create your own aliases to disks with the devalias command. Say you want to be able to say "boot freebsd" and that FreeBSD is located on disk 3 in the d partition. You'd create an alias like this (on an Ultra5, you'll need to get the right device path for the E450, I can't get at mine right now). devalias freebsd /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@3,4 The last 3 characters being the critic part. 3 is the disk (SCSI) id, and 4 being the partition on the disk. Paul. Chris BeHanna wrote: > I have an E450 with a bunch of newfs'd disks, and I'd like to be > able to boot back and forth between Solaris 8 and FreeBSD (and perhaps > triple-boot with Solaris 9 as well). > > Does anyone have this working, or have any hints as to how I might > get it to work? What about a "BootEasy for SPARC"? > > Thanks, > -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S PAG: +1 (877) 693-7155 Minneapolis, MN 55413 WRK: +1 (612) 664-3385 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 664-4779 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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