You can boot NT and DUNIX on a 4100. Thanks for the quick responses.
Included are
some tips to accomplish this:
>From Robert Otterson:
Gotchas;
1- In NT DISK Admin do NOT write a signature to your UNIX disk.(say
good bye unix)
2- In UNIX do not put a disklabel on your NT disk
Yes, you will need separate boot disks.
This is all based on personal experience.
You will have to go to supplementry menu to change your boot OS
You will have to run ARC to get back to boot NT
NOTE disclaimer :not official response
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>From Paul Kitwin:
Best advice I can give you is to have 2 seperate disks. One w/ UNIX and
the other with NT. Have the Drive in SCSI ID 0 as the NT, ID 1 as
UNIX.
And keep the auto action to halt at the SRM.
This way, you don't mix OSs (which can get ugly) on one drive (one
partition accident, and you're dead).
If you do this, you only have to change between ARC and SRM for your OS
boot.
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>From Alan Davis:
Yes, the 4100 will dual boot. The only /real/ gotcha is that
when running
NT the disk utility will detect the unix disks and ask to brand them.
Don't
do it, it will overwrite the boot blocks and partition table.
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>From alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
The 4100 is probably high enough up the food chain that
has enough console memory for both the SRM and ARC
consoles. If you don't have any EISA options, switching
should be a simple matter of setting the OS_TYPE or
equivalent in one console, doing a reset and you have
the other console. Keep each operating system on its
own disk and you're all set.
I have seen 2100s were the EISA Configuration Utility had
to be run to load the appropriate firmware on some EISA
options. If I remember correctly it was for a graphics
adapter. But as I said that may only strictly be for
systems with EISA options.
Received on Thu Dec 11 1997 - 01:05:52 NZDT