Re: Dual Boot a RS/6000?
From: Damir Delija (ddelija_at_PUBLIC.SRCE.HR)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:29:51 +0100 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:52:41PM -0500, cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a users who wants/needs a Linux system in his room. He presently
> has a PC that he uses regularly and an IBM RS/6000 ( an IntelliStation
> Power 275 [9114-275] ) running AIX 5.2 ML02. He uses the RS/6000 less
> often. So, he is asking if I could put either SuSE or RedHat on the
> RS/6000 and have it dual boot in either Linux (most of the time) or AIX
> 5.2 (some of the time).
>
> Can this be done? Can Linux run on a 9114-275, a Power 4+ system? If
> yes, can it be dual bootable?
There are some redbooks on using redhat on rs6k
I remember one discussion where such alternative was mentioned
based on based on having two diffrent version of AIX on same machine
two different boot disks, and some magic on boot lists.
I hope this helps
>
> Presently, he has two 36 GByte hard drives. The hdisk0 is rootvg with 27
> GBytes free. The hdisk1 is homevg and it has 18 GBytes free.
>
> Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christopher M. Baker
> Senior Technical Support Analyst
> DSE/TCO
> Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
> cbaker@goodyear.com
> 330.796.1725
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