Re: Silo

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:07:34PM +0100, Dario Rossi wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> BC>> other=1
> BC>> label=solaris
> BC>> read-only
> BC>
> BC>SILO doesn't know what to do with this. The silo.conf(5) manpage shows you
> BC>how this is done. More than likely, when you installed Linux, the old
> BC>boot-block for Solaris was saved as /boot/old.b. So try this:
> BC>
> BC>other=1
> BC>label=solaris
> BC>bootblock=/boot/old.b
> 
> Well the problem is that i installed linux first, then installed Solaris.
> Then booted from linux cd, mounted all partitions with the installation
> prog, and i chrooted linux / directory.
> Finally ran silo.

Ok, then read the silo.conf manpage.

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