Re: GRUB question

[Luciano Almeida]

Jason Wigen wrote:
> I am a network admin at a local community college in San Diego. I have 
> been tasked with creating a multi-purpose lab that will house about 30+ 
> computers. This computer lab is used for many different classes from 
> basic keyboarding to advanced CISCO courses. In the past I have had a 
> multi-boot system using GRUB with LINUX/WIN98/NT/XP. This has worked 
> great for quite awhile now. Next semester they want to add a Solaris 
> UNIX class as part of the CISCO course curriculum to teach the CDE 
> interface. 
>  
> Can GRUB be used to boot a Solaris 8 UNIX partition? If so can you point 
> me in the right direction for some documentation? All I am finding 
> online so far are "I have never used GRUB to boot Solaris...." type docs. 
>  
> I am a big GRUB fan and would like to continue to use it in my 
> classrooms. Thanks in advance for your help.
>  
> Jason Wigen
> Microcomputer/Network Support
> Educational Cultural Complex 
> San Diego, CA
>   

Solaris 8 7/01 (for x86) chainloads ok.
In my case, it goes with
root(hd1,1) (second hardrive, second partition)
chainload +1
It's the active partition in that hd. Then I get the blue menu of 
solaris. Remember to keep the partition of solaris below the 1024th 
cilinder (or refuses to install, in my case).
Good luck.

Luciano Almeida
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~lmalm