Re: Booting or installing Solaris 9 intel on a secondary IDE drive

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: 18 Aug 2004 23:46:19 GMT

mta61@yahoo.com (Mark Andrews) writes:

>I was playing with Solaris 9 for Intel on the weekend and installed it on
>the slave drive on the first IDE bus. Since the Solaris install insists
>on installing the o.s. on c0d0 and i didn't want to blow away my XP install
>on the master drive on the first bus, i used a bit of trickery:

>(1) Disconnected the master drive
>(2) Recabled the slave drive as the master drive
>(3) Did the install
>(4) Rebooted the machine and Solaris ran correctly

>This all stopped when i restored the machine to its original hardware
>configuration:

>(1) XP booting off the first IDE master
>(2) Solaris installed on the first IDE slave (c1d0)

>How do i boot the Solaris boot partition and start Solaris from c1d0
>or should i do a reinstall onto c1d0 using some trick i'm not aware of? ;-)

Your BIOS needs to support booting from the secondary drive.

Can you get it to give you a boot menu which includes both disks?

Casper 

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