04-17-2009
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have some problems with LILO/Grub...
When I try to start Linux it says>
EBDA too big
How can I fix this problem?
//Nevsky (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nevsky
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
question:
1. Which partioning wizard is better to use, System Commander V7.0, or Partition Magic V7.0?
2. Which version of linux is better to start with for beginners Mandrake, SuSe, or Corel?
:) (4 Replies)
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3. Solaris
Ok, so I'm a bit new to the whole Unix/Linux thing, but I'm no stranger to dual booting...
However, the problem that I am having is that I am unable to create a dual boot with Unix (in this case I's using Sun Solaris 9.0 x86) and for linux either RH 9 or Mandrake 9.1, but for the purpose of just... (1 Reply)
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4. Red Hat
Hi ,
I have two disk installed with Linux(disk 1) and WinXP(disk 2) .Now i am changing Hardisk jumbper manualy to get in to Linux/Windows .I want to configure my REDHAT linux boot manager to list Linux and WindowXP and wanna boot according to my choice .
Here is what my fdisk -l shows (Only... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gkrishn
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5. Solaris
Dear All,
I want use Unix (Sun Solaris 10) in my PC, and now I'm using windows, can Unix intalled to My PC and make dual booting like linux??
any one have experienced about this..? please help me..?
Thank you for your help
Regards,
Heru (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: heru_90
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6. Linux
Hi Experts,
I have windows XP and fedora core 3 in a PC i.e dual booting. I want to share some of the files in Windows Operating system to Linux(the other OS in the PC). How can i do it
Thanks
Shaan (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shaan_dmp
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I first had windows xp 64-bit installed on my system, and then installed fedora 10 on a partition (partition was created while installing fedora).
When installation was completed, I could not boot on Windows or Fedora, I keep on getting this disc error and system asking to press ctrl+alt+del to... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: lucianvibz
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8. Ubuntu
Hi Everyone,
I was using XP-Home along with Ubuntu (dual booting) in my laptop. At the booting screen the Grub loader used to show me like this-
Ubuntu
Other operating system
Inside 'Other operating system' I used to find 'XP- Home'. Oflate I installed XP-Professional and there I faced the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: adc22
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9. Linux
Dear friends,
I am experiencing the trouble while installing the Red Hat Linux 4 on top of windows XP, after booting its asking "What type of media contains the packages to be installed".
Steps I followed:
Step 1: left the free space as unpartitioned, (I also tried with the FAT32... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: suneelieg
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10. Red Hat
Hi all,
I have an problem with dual booting.
I installed windows7 and i want to install redhat linux on same system. When i insert the cd and boot with the cd it is not showing the hard drive. If i boot with hard disk its booting with windows7. But, if i boot with cdrom it is showing an... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: mastansaheb
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
grub
grub(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros grub(5)
NAME
grub - GRand Unified Bootloader software on Solaris
DESCRIPTION
The current release of the Solaris operating system is shipped with the GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) software. GRUB is developed and
supported by the Free Software Foundation.
The overview for the GRUB Manual, accessible at www.gnu.org, describes GRUB:
Briefly, a boot loader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring con-
trol to an operating system kernel software (such as Linux or GNU Mach). The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system
(for example, a GNU [Ed. note: or Solaris] system).
GNU GRUB is a very powerful boot loader that can load a wide variety of free, as well as proprietary, operating systems, by means of chain-
loading. GRUB is designed to address the complexity of booting a personal computer; both the program and this manual are tightly bound to
that computer platform, although porting to other platforms may be addressed in the future. [Ed. note: Sun has ported GRUB to the Solaris
operating system.]
One of the important features in GRUB is flexibility; GRUB understands filesystems and kernel executable formats, so you can load an arbi-
trary operating system the way you like, without recording the physical position of your kernel on the disk. Thus you can load the kernel
just by specifying its file name and the drive and partition where the kernel resides.
Among Solaris machines, GRUB is supported on x86 platforms. The GRUB software that is shipped with Solaris adds two utilities not present
in the open-source distribution:
bootadm(1M) Enables you to manage the boot archive and make changes to the GRUB menu.
installgrub(1M) Loads the boot program from disk.
Both of these utilities are described in Solaris man pages.
Beyond these two Solaris-specific utilities, the GRUB software is described in the GRUB manual, a PDF version of which is available from
the Sun web site. Available in the same location is the grub(8) open-source man page. This man page describes the GRUB shell.
SEE ALSO
boot(1M), bootadm(1M), installgrub(1M)
Solaris Express Installation Guide: Basic Installations
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub
SunOS 5.11 21 Apr 2005 grub(5)