Re: Dual Boot NextStep, OpenStep

[Stefan Böhringer]

It is unusual that you do not see any partitions but depending on your
disk size this may be due to different CHS-mappings comparing Linux with
NS/OS.
Otherwise I didn't achieve a simple choose with
cursor-keys-and-press-return configuration, because the mach kernel
needs parameters specified correctly, which cannot be passed
automatically. You have to specify the kernel and the rootdev by typing
at the boot prompt (supposing partition 1 on hd 1 (counted from 0)):
hd(1)mach_kernel root_dev=/dev/hdb
I'm not hundred percent certain about the the parameter naming and
device names (I certainly recall that device names in OS/NS used to be
different from Linux), so feel free to email me if any problems arise.

Best wishes,

        Stefan


On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 13:06, Richard van Paasen wrote:
>   
> Hi,
> 
> I have NextStep and OpenStep on 2 seperate harddisks and would
> like to ceate a dual boot configuration. Now I am swapping harddisks
> when I need to run either OS, kind of annoying...
> 
> So, I loaded a Linux rescue floppy because I thought that I could use
> lilo to create a dual boot setup. However, I started the fdisk utility to
> check which partitions are available on the disks, but it shows NONE!
> 
> I do not remember that I saw any partitioning while installing NS or OS,
> both asked whether it was ok to erase and use the whole disk. I did not try
> to run lilo because I don't want to lose my current installations.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with creating a dual boot configuration?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Richard.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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