Howdy!
Rumor has it that some people are running OpenSolaris bare metal on Mac Book
Pros?
I must be a rock because I am trying to install NV60 using bootcamp on my MBP
with no success.
These are my latest step towards making this work and still no cigar.
1) Install MacOSX on MBP
2) Run MacOSX update
3) Download and Install Bootcamp
4) Configured Bootcamp
a) partitioned disk (50/50 MacOSX & MS Windows)
b) skip creating drivers CD
c) chose not to install windows and chose to reboot system
5) After reboot, I tested to make sure that MacOSX runs normal
6) Then I reboot and boot NV60 DVD
a) I chose console install so I can get to command line option
b) From command line I run Solaris format command to get an interactive
fdisk
c) While in interactive fdisk I Delete FAT32 Partition and Create Solaris
Partition
7) Then I reboot again to make sure I can still run MacOSX. It runs normal and
still identifies disk0s2 as MS Data Partition (everything looks good)
8) I now boot NV60 DVD again
a) Go to console option
b) Perform work around for OpenSolaris BugID 6413235
c) Exit console which restarts my NV60 console mode installation
d) Proceed with normal NV60 install with no problems
9) System reboots and EFI/MBR information must get wiped as system does not
know what to boot
Again when everthing has been installed (MacOSX, updates, bootcamp, NV60) and
after NV60 does its reboot all booting information in EFI/MBR partition is lost
as I get a big "?" that shows up on the screen instead of my expect choice to
boot Mac OS X or Windows.
I can boot NV60 DVD and enter console and see that partitioning information
looks good in Solaris. I run Solaris format command to get interactive fdisk
and it tells me something like:
Partition1 is unknown 200mb (bootcamp/EFI/MBR)
Partition2 is unknown 54G (Mac OS X)
Partition3 is Solaris 55G
I then run partition command with print option and it is says something like:
S1 is /
S2 is SWAP
S3 is /nv
S4 is /tx
S5 is /zfs
S6 is /zfs2
S7 is /export
When I boot MacOSX DVD I can see partitions but the are all marked as untitled
and unknown. So partitions are there but I cannot boot into NV60 or MacOSX, so
my only option is to reinstall Mac OS X from scratch and start over.
I know I can run Parallels or VMware Fusion and I have run both and my
experience with both were not optimal as both functioned somewhat but
performance and stability were issues for me.
Ok, I am a rock and I need a little help to understand how I can make
OpenSolaris run bare metal on my MBP. Any and all suggestions welcomed.
Thanks!
Wences
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