From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jul 15 5:17:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE81137B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2193543E58 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (ptroot.iaces.com [204.147.87.124]) by iaces.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6FCHKjI081936; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:17:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <3D32BD4F.90502@iaces.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:17:19 -0500 From: Paul Root User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-SPARC Subject: Re: Dual Boot FreeBSD and Solaris? References: <20020714225342.E58350-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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