RE: Dual Boot NextStep, OpenStep

[Bissell, Tim]

It's a long time since I fiddled with it, but you don't need too use
lilo - just use the Openstep boot loader. you make it default boot
off the first (Openstep) drive, and add the second drive.  You don't
say if your disks are SCSI (like mine) or IDE.  With SCSI it is easy
to fit the two disks, just give the Openstep drive a lower SCSI id.
I don't know how you do it with IDE; whether you must put them on
separate channels, or can have them on one channel as master and
slave... probably the former.
Anyway, boot Openstep, then log in as root. mount the second drive
(if it isn't mounted for you).  from the command line, do a df(1)
to find the second drive name it should be sd1 (SCSI) or hd1 (IDE).
  Then edit the {mount-pt}/private/etc/fstab and correct the
mountpoint of / (and any other local partitions) from e.g. sd0
(or hd0) to sd1 (or hd1). Note that {mount-pt}/etc is a symbolic
link to /etc - do not edit {mount-pt}/etc/fstab!

Then when you you next boot, hit return to get the bootloader
and type

bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1

or (i believe) for IDE:

bhd(1,0,0)hdmach rootdev=hd1

(it may still be sdmach even for IDE)

Look at the NS/OS installation manuals for more details on the
loader options.
Anyway, this advice is worth what you paid for it - back everything
and anything up before changing any files!

regards,

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard van Paasen [mailto:rvpaasen@dds.nl]
> Sent: 18 June 2002 12:07
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Dual Boot NextStep, OpenStep
> 
> 
>   
> 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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