On 9/14/10 8:30 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:52 -0700, Richard Doty wrote:
All the docs I read say that it isn't possible to install more than one
solaris partition on a disk. Surely that's not literally true. GRUB
seems like it could handle it. Maybe the limitation is the default
installer? Has anyone cracked this nut already?
No one has needed to. You get on Solaris FAT partition, with multiple
*slices* inside that partition. But these days with ZFS you don't even
need to do that... typically you just let ZFS carve up a root pool
however it wants to, and have different filesystems within that pool
(which could be multiple boot environments.)
Maybe if we understood what problem you're trying to solve with multiple
partitions, we could help better?
I boot illumos from CD, and install is using less than the whole disk.
Then I boot openindiana from CD, to install it on some of the remaining
disk. Woops, installer says I can only have 1 solaris partition. (pick
any 2 flavors of solaris for this experiment, they all seem to have the
same limitation)
There have been tricks in the past to get linux+win+solaris on the same
disk, but I'd like to have 2 kinds of solaris.
Richard.
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