Multi-booting Solaris and other operating systems Multi-booting Solaris and other operating systems
Multi-booting Solaris and other operating systems
Mariusz Zynel
Last revised: Jan 8, 2004
Contents
1. Introduction
1. Preface
2. Legal notice
3. Applicability
4. History
2. Generalities
1. Geometry of a hard disk drive
2. Hard disk capacity limitations
3. BIOS geometry translation modes
4. Logical structure of a hard disk drive, boot process
3. Boot managers
1. Solaris boot manager
2. NT Loader and boot.ini file
3. Linux Loader
4. Third party boot managers
4. Practical howto
1. First things first
2. Installation
3. Disks, partitions and slices under Solaris
4. Troubleshooting
5. Frequently Answered Questions
5. Example installations
1. Single hard disk, Solaris, Windows NT
2. Single hard disk, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
3. Single hard disk, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 98
4. Two hard disks, Solaris, Windows NT - safety
5. performance
6. Two hard disks, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 98
7. Two hard disks, Solaris and Windows
8. Two Solaris systems on one hard disk
9. Two Solaris systems on two hard disks
6. Back matter
1. Index
2. Glossary
3. References
I. Introduction
- 1 -I.1 Preface Mariusz Zynel
I.1 Preface
Growing popularity of Unix operating systems, including free Solaris and Linux, on desktop market and
relatively low prices of large IDE hard disk drives raised the problem of having multiple operating
systems on ...
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