[summary] Dual booting a E420 with 2 versions of Solaris

2007-12-25 9:46:00

The unanimous consensus was that I would be OK as long as I do two things:

1) Install the OS on separate disks or partitions

2) set the default boot device to the default OS that I want it to boot.

Thanks all!

Blake Roberts

Sr. UNIX Administrator

Datachannel, Inc.

(425) 462-1999 x179

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Blake Roberts

> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 7:31 AM

> To: Sun Managers (E-mail)

> Subject: Dual booting a E420 with 2 versions of Solaris

> Folks,

> I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I want to see if there are

> any problems with this. I've been asked to set up several E420R's to dual

> boot Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7. My idea is to install the OS's on

> different disks so that they won't collide, then just boot to the proper

> disk. Is this correct?

> The main concern I have is going between a 32-bit platform and a 64-bit

> platform. I know I have to do an EEPROM update to the system for 2.6 (or

> at least I think I do). Will this screw up a 7 install?

> Thanks,

> Blake Roberts

> Sr. UNIX Administrator

> Datachannel, Inc.

> (425) 462-1999 x179

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