Last night I tried to install S10U3 inside vmware on a 500GB disk but ran into
a "small" problem: the disk partitioning using by Solaris (fdisk) does not seem
able to deal with large disks as presented by VMWare. To test whether or not
it was a vmware vs solaris bug, I tried FreeBSD - it recognised the disk and
its MBR table correctly. Is this a known bug? Or an issue for some other
forum/group?
Is OpenSolaris any better in this regard?
Solaris fdisk reports (500GB disk):
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Ext Win95 0 4176 4177 25
2 Ext Win95 4177 8353 4177 25
3 EXT LBA 8254 54426 46073 100
FreeBSD:
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 12 unused 0
63 67103505 67103504 ad0s1 7 fat 12
67103505 67103505 134207009 ad0s2 7 fat 12
134207010 740162745 874369754 ad0s3 4 extended DOS, LBA 15
874369755 102398310 976768064 - 12 unused 0
Actual:
Physical: 60801,255,63
Partition 1: 0,1,1 -> 4176,254,63
Partition 2: 4177,0,1 -> 8353,254,63
Partition 3: 8354,0,1 -> 54426,63 (extended)
Partition 3a: 8354,1,1 -> 12612,254,63 (logical)
Partition 3b: 12613,1,1 -> 15926,254,63 (logical)
Partition 3c: 15927,1,1 -> 54426,254,63 (logical)
Unallocated: 54427,0,1 -> 60800,254,63
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