Posts Tagged ‘ boot ’

Moving a solaris guest from VMWare to Virtualbox

June 16, 2011
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I’m a big fan of Virtualbox. It’s easy, fast and free. Recently I had to revive an older Solaris guest that used to run under vmware, and to set it up to run under Virtualbox. I quickly found out that after the grub screen it enters a reboot loop and nothing seemed to help....

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Bye, bye, dual boot

November 22, 2009
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Ever since I discovered linux I ran a dual boot system. Linux (usually slackware) + windows (first ’98 than, as soon as it was available XP). Windows 98 was problematic because it needed frequent reinstalling, pleasently overwriting the boot sector everytime requiring in turn to reinstall lilo. Than XP solved this problem (not that...

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