SILO possible on fourth partition?

[Pieter-Paul Spiertz <pspiertz@sci.kun.nl>]

Hello,

I'm doing a network install of Woody on my Ultra 5, and I hope to be able
to dualboot to Solaris 9, which is already on it. I have read some FAQs, but
I guess I have made a few silly false beginner assumptions.

This is my disk:

Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39702 cylinders

   Device     Start      End   Blocks Id  System
/dev/hda1     17354    27512  5119632  2  SunOS root
/dev/hda2         0     1041   524664  3  SunOS swap
/dev/hda3         0    39702 20009808  5  Whole disk
/dev/hda4      1041    17354  8221752 83  Linux native
/dev/hda8     27512    39702  6143760  8  SunOS home


First off, is this setup any wise? Can I share the swap (I think yes) and
home (according to Google in 2001, no) partitions?

This is my self-created /target/etc/silo.conf, sitting in tty2 in the Debian
installer:

partition=4
root=/dev/hda4
timeout=100
image=/vmlinuz
  label=linux
  read-only
image=/vmlinuz.old
  label=linux-old
  read-only
other=/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a
  label=solaris

# silo -r /target -f
/etc/silo.conf appears to be valid
#

No sign of real writing.. When I reboot, 'boot disk:d' at the prom returns that
'the loaded file appears not to be executable'. That is a FAQ, but the answers on
Google do not indicate how to solve it. 'boot /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:d'
gives the same. 'boot net root=/dev/hda4' just starts the installer from scratch
over again.. :(
I have thought of using 'partition=1', but in that case I think I might not be
able to boot Solaris anymore.


Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Pieter-Paul Spiertz