Thursday, January 6, 2011

Dual booting a Proliant Server

The BIOS on Proliants servers do not have any way of selecting the drive bay to boot from like most modern PCs do - in fairness this is probably an extension by these manufacturers.

So I want a dual boot system, once for a CentOS install one for VMware ESIx hypervisor (which has it's own boot loader).

The grub.conf that I got to work on the CentOS drives in the first bay was to remap drives:

title ESIx (4.1)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,3)
chainloader +1

As found on the VMware forums after some searching:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1206856

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