Resources for Working With Multiple Boot Environments

Updated and rebuilt July 2009

Here are resources for running the Solaris or OpenSolaris OS in multiple-boot environments:

• Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS, a Sun Developer Network (SDN) article that describes the OpenSolaris beadm utility, which enables you to efficiently manage boot environments (BEs)

• Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager, an SDN article that uses an example BE set to describe how to manage BEs with Package Manager

• Configuring Multiboot Environments on Sun x64 Systems with AMD Opteron Processors, a Sun BluePrints article that provides procedures for configuring Sun x64 workstations with AMD Opteron processors to boot more than one operating system from the same physical hard drive

• So you want to dual boot Linux with OpenSolaris 2008.11?, a blog by James Legg that describes how to dual boot Linux and OpenSolaris 2008.11

• OpenSolaris and Linux on One USB Stick for Dual Usage, a BigAdmin community-submitted article that describes how to create a USB stick that can be used for rescue tasks in Linux and the OpenSolaris Operating System for x86 platforms, and can also boot in a virtual PC environment on various operating systems

• Linux & Solaris booting together, a blog by Ashley Saulsbury

Also see Resources for Sun Technologies and Linux on this web site, which provides resources for environments that run Linux with Sun products and technologies.