Did you use "Partition Magic" to create all the partitions? If so, how did you create the Solaris partition?
After using the XPs build in "Disk Management" console, was everything working fine.....were you able to boot all the Oses? -Narendra On 1/28/07, Andrew Pattison <spam at apattison.plus.com> wrote: > > I've encountered an odd problem when installing Solaris Express Developer > Edition over an existing partition layout as follows: > > 30,000MB: Solaris Express b53 (bootable, primary) > 130,000MB (ish): NTFS partition (not bootable, primary) > > The disk was previously partitioned by: > > 1. Wiping in Windows using Partition Magic > 2. Installing SXCR 53 into it's own 30,000MB partition. > 3. Verifying SXCR booted OK (which it did). > 4. Create NTFS partition in rest of disk (using XPs built in "Disk > Management" console). > > My problem is this: I attempted to install SXDE over the top of this > existing partition layout, simply by booting the DVD and "customizing" the > disk layout to include a single 30,000MB partition and nothing else. Upon > installation and reboot, I get a text-mode grub prompt and am unable to get > any further. The same happens if I don't touch the partition layout at all > and simply over-write the existing UFS partition with SXDE. > > So each time I want SXDE installed I have to wipe my disk, which contains > an NTFS-based backup of my primary Windows installation, and start from > scratch. Does anyone have any pointers as to what is going wrong here? > > Thanks > > Andrew. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Warm Regards, Narendra Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070128/e0f9d015/attachment.html>
