How can I use LILO to boot Solaris/x86 on the secondary master IDE?
Follow the instructions for the previous question substituting /dev/hdc as directed. An alternate, much-more-difficult method follows that doesn’t involve the “switch drives with /boot/chain.b” trick. Lim Chee Siang writes: These are basically the steps I ‘discovered’ through countless failed attempts to get Solaris to boot from the secondary master. I got LILO to boot Solaris/x86 2.5.1 from the master disk of the secondary IDE. Solaris was initially installed in the primary-master disk, i.e. the only disk in the system; whereas Win9x and Linux was in the other disk, which I temporarily removed during Solaris installation. Solaris boots according to the boot-path variable in /etc/bootrc. During boot, fsck will check the disk entries in /etc/vfstab. Similarly, mount will scan /etc/vfstab when mounting mounting filesystems. In order to boot Solaris from secondary-master disk, these two files MUST be modified, and the /dev/rdsk/ and /dev/dsk/ directories MUST have the correct links to /de
