Hello
I recently purchased solaris 8 and I want to dual boot with
windows 2000.
What is the easiest way to install the solaris OS with the
existing windows 2000?
mogfog (4 Replies)
I'm looking to add a 2nd hard drive to my computer and make one hard drive Solaris and keep the 2nd as my origional Xp home edition. To basically keep them seperated in what they do. Now saying I have the hard drive in installed and everything and it's blank. I work for Sun Microsystems so i know... (2 Replies)
Greetings,
I have learned much since joining the message board, but I was unable to locate any information concerning dual booting Solaris with Windows on a machine with standardized equipment. I have read on the sun.com page that it is possible and can even be pushed to the rear partition, but... (3 Replies)
Hello friends,
On sparc 5 with solaris 8 i like to have dual boot with solaris 9.
is this correct that the minimum memmory must be 96 mb for dual boot?
do you recommand dual boot on unix?
solaris 8 will be the testing
environment and solaris 9 the production.
does any one has
this type... (5 Replies)
I did a search on the board, but I could not find anything specific to dual booting windows and solaris, with solaris being placed on a second hard drive. I have solaris 8 intel, and I am trying to dual boot, but the Solaris installation process is quite intimidating. I am afraid I am going to do... (3 Replies)
hi ;)
So I have 2 HDD (SATA and ATA). On the SATA I've installed WindwosXP and now I want to install solaris 10 on the ATA disk. Is it possible if the ATA disk is primary to make dual boot ?
thank you very much (0 Replies)
Does here know how to configure the Windows XP Boot loader to dual boot XP and Solaris 10?
I installed Solaris after XP but it did not detect the XP installation, and I really can't reformat right now. (3 Replies)
From googling around, I have found that dual booting isn't so hard... if you are installing both for the first time. However, I couldn't find anything on if I can preserve my Solaris 10 partition that is already installed.
Any words of advice? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am running into a some problems creating a dual boot system of 2 solaris instances using ZFS file system and I was wondering if someone can help me out.
First some back ground. I have been asked to change the file system of our server from UFS to ZFS. Currently we are using Solaris... (3 Replies)
I can't get dual boot to work. I have first installed Windows10 on a new SSD, and then I installed Solaris 11.3 on the same disk. When I boot the disk, the GRUB shows Solaris, but no Windows. I can boot into Solaris fine. When I try to boot from a Windows10 partition, it does not work. Windows says... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
installgrub
installgrub(1M) System Administration Commands installgrub(1M)NAME
installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device
DESCRIPTION
The installgrub command is an x86-only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.
installgrub installs GRUB stage 1 and stage 2 files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.
OPTIONS
The installgrub command accepts the following options:
-f Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.
-m Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively. You must use this option if Solaris is installed on an extended parti-
tion.
OPERANDS
The installgrub command accepts the following operands:
stage1 The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.
stage2 The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.
raw-device The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.
For disk devices, specify the slice where the GRUB menu file is located. (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy
disk, it is /dev/rdiskette.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice
The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:
example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1
/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
Example 2 Installing GRUB on a Floppy
The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:
example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
# cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
# umount /mnt
# cd /boot/grub
# /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette
FILES
/boot/grub Directory where GRUB files reside.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)WARNINGS
Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.
SunOS 5.11 31 Oct 2008 installgrub(1M)