Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
> I built the a version of the live CD using the slim prototype approach
> and pieces are coming togther.
> The system booted up and installed on the target disk without a
> problem. However a couple of issues after install still
> exist.
>
> 1. Solaris2 fdisk partition should be set as active.
>
If "whole disk" path is chosen, "active" flag is set automatically by
"fdisk -B" command
in TI when partition is being created.
I think, it might not be the problem to have it set so early, because
Solaris2 partition is
the only one which will exist on the selected disk.
For "existing Solaris2 partition" case, I was curious and tried what
happens, if other partition
is set active. I have found out that if stage1 of Solaris GRUB is
installed in MBR, stage2 GRUB
is always booted from Solaris2 partition regardless of which one is set
as active.
I have taken a look an installgrub(1M) man page which says:
"WARNINGS
Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) over-
rides any boot manager currently installed on the machine.
The system will always boot the GRUB in the Solaris parti-
tion regardless of which fdisk partition is active."
It seems that unlike GNU GRUB Solaris version of GRUB stage1 doesn't honor
"active" flag.
It might be subject of discussion, if it is safe to rely on this GRUB
behavior for
October release.
Jan
> 2. NWAM service was not enabled.
> 3. generic.xml->generic_open.xml - Dave M addressing this.
>
> I also tried using the hiddenmenu option in GRUB. This worked fine.
> However I am not sure I liked the effect. What I saw a black screen.
> At the top of the screen was a line with the count down to boot. The
> background/foreground for this line was blue on white. So the visual
> effect was not pleasing to me. I would be interested in feedback from
> others especially Frank and the JDS folks.
>
> -Sanjay
>
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