Wences, I suspect this is a result of Solaris installing grub in the MBR. Unfortunately, installing the Sun grub on the mbr isn't optional.
That reminds me, someone needs to file a bug on the Solaris installer on this matter. Installing the mbr should always be optional. Thus, you probably need to to figure out how to restore the EFI or try out an alternative EFI. The following URL might help on the EFI restoration... http://www.ehmac.ca/showthread.php?t=43204 However, switching to rEFIt may be a better solution... http://refit.sourceforge.net/ I don't have a Mac Book Pro or I would try this out myself first. However, my next laptop will be of the Mac Book linage if Solaris can be reliably installed as a main OS (e.g. without virtualization). Brad On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:15 -0700, Wences Michel wrote: > 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 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
