Multi-booting Solaris and other operating systems

Mariusz Zynel

Last revised: Dec 15, 2003

Availability

Main site: http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org Mirror: US: http://www.geocities.com/paedalbu/multiboot/

Contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Preface
    2. Legal notice
    3. Applicability
    4. History
  2. Generalities
    1. Geometry of a hard disk drive
    2. Hard disk capacity limitations
    3. BIOS geometry translation modes
    4. Logical structure of a hard disk drive, boot process
  3. Boot managers
    1. Solaris boot manager
    2. NT Loader and boot.ini file
    3. Linux Loader
    4. Third party boot managers
  4. Practical howto
    1. First things first
    2. Installation
    3. Disks, partitions and slices under Solaris
    4. Troubleshooting
    5. Frequently Answered Questions
  1. Example installations
    1. Single hard disk, Solaris, Windows NT
    2. Single hard disk, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
    3. Single hard disk, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 98
    4. Two hard disks, Solaris, Windows NT - safety
    5. Two hard disks, Solaris, Windows NT - performance
    6. Two hard disks, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 98
    7. Two hard disks, Solaris and Windows
  2. Back matter
    1. Index
    2. Glossary
    3. References

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Copyright (c) 1999-2003 by Mariusz Zynel.
Last revised: Dec 15, 2003.