Hi Basant, it is likely that existence of EFI partition is the reason why you are encountering this problem.
As far as dual boot of Solaris and MacOS is concerned, I have found following blog which might help you to workaround that issue: http://blogs.sun.com/paulm/entry/dual_partitioning_a_macbook_pro Best regards, Jan Basant Kumar kukreja wrote: > I am trying to install opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 build on macbook pro. I am > trying to do dual boot on same machine. Installation fails saying : > Couldn't obtain information about geometry of /dev/rdsk/c4d0s2. > Could not crate VTOC target > TI process failed. > > # fdisk -G [ output typed from hand ] > Partition Status Type .... > 1 EFI > 2 Other OS > 3 Active Linux Native > 4 Active Solaris2 > > Previously when Partition 4 was not active, I was having error mentioned in > (fdisk -F fails). > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6413235 > > After I made the partition active (from Linux fdisk command), now fdisk > is not able to get partition geometry. > I found some similar issues : > http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6624133 > > Mac OS X and Linux are booting fine. I used "diskutil resizeVolume" to shrink > the original partition. > > Any suggestion or workaround? > > Regards, > Basant. > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
