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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello and thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer
Hopefully this is a simple question but is the Volume Boot Record (VBR) only used in Windows? I've seen references to it in relationship to Windows & not Linux... but I'm not sure if that means it's unique to Windows or not. If it is... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bodisha
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2. Solaris
Hi Guy's,
Newbee here.
I installed Solaris 2.4 in VMWare Fusion 5.0.2 on a MacBook Pro.
All went well, but after 'system ready' I get a 'console login' prompt.
But I never got to the point where I could set a name and password for that.
I can login as root. But that's all.
How do I get to... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: hansolo
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3. SCO
hi
SCO Unix 5.0.6 doesn't boot due to this problem:
not a directory
boot not found
cannot open
stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd (40)/boot
Knows someone howto solve it? (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: ccc
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4. Solaris
I have to install Solaris 10 (for x86 CPU) on my pc.
How can I do a dual boot solaris and Windows 7, on the same hard disc?
I searched here, but it works with windows NT, not Seven.
May I use a bootloader? How I can do it?
Thank you in advance for any answer! :) (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: mghis
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5. Solaris
hi all:
I have a sun blade-1000 for labs only, with 73G hd loaded, which boot block installed on slice 0. I'm confused by setting "boot-device" value in obp, which my question as follow:
in ok mode, I got device alias like this:
disk0: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@2,0
as I know the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: netshu
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6. Solaris
When I installed the SOLARIS 10 OS first time, the desktop would not start up, this was because of network setup. Reinstalled worked. After a week due to some problem I had to reinstall OS, installation went fine and but when i reboot I get this error.
cannot find mis/krtld
boot error loading... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: johncy_j
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Well, I formatted my entire harddrive (40gig), partitioned it into three partitions, FAT32 for WindowsXP (30 gig), Linux ext3 (7gig), and Linux swap (about 500mb). All this with PartitionMagic 8.0 and it took hours. After all that, I installed the "publishers version" of Red Hat with ease. I was on... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: chutt
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey all,
When loading a Sun Ultra 60 I got running Solaris 9 I get a error. This error will only happen when I have a external CD-RW drive attached.
The error is;
Failed to power up sd21, see your administrator or reboot
I have rebooted and well I am the administrator for this machine.... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: merlin
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey all,
Just wondering about to things with the bootup.
First one is. When you boot Solaris, the background is white and text black. Is it possible to change this so that the text it white and background is black? I don't have any idea how to do this one. So if anyone does please let... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: merlin
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