James Cornell wrote: .... > I too have a MacBook Pro. Problems plaguing OpenSolaris on this > hardware are STILL with EFI handling, the workarounds still are > dangerous, and partly at the fault of Apple you can't use a USB disk > reliably, (Open)Solaris doesn't like them anyways BIOS (MBR) or EFI it > doesn't matter. My Atheros (MBP3, Atheros not broadcom) doesn't work > out of the box, neither does the Marvell Yukon, same goes for FreeBSD > 6/7, tried that too, it doesn't support my laptop either. Even most > Linux distros new and old don't like it, though MadWifi supports it, and > the ethernet driver works fine. The main issues is with how grub > installs itself, it's VERY annoying, then the needing to edit the driver > files and force plumb, etc, just not a quality action to go through, > makes my hands feel dirty. Hardware drivers are one thing sysadmins > shouldn't have to worry about, these devices are open and widely used > enough and not just tied to this particular hardware, it must be > included. For us, it will only be included 6mo down the line with the > CD, or with bi-monthly SXCE DVD's, which may take a few months, been a > full year so far without a cent of support, and then the lack of GLDv3 > makes things painful. (xVM, Zones, Crossbow) I tried and tried, > possibly wearing my unit out faster than normal, trying to get > OpenSolaris decently working, it has cost me tons of time so far without > it even working correctly. The best option would be to image a copy of > OpenSolaris and then install a boot loader onto the superblock (Which > UFS doesn't like) and even with rEFIt things go wrong randomly at boot. > James, please give me explicit instructions on dual-booting, I will not > wipe OSX, OpenSolaris cannot replace neither Windows or OSX for a > desktop, maybe for you since you're a kernel engineer, regardless... I > still want to use it, I need to be current since this is my career area.
Hi James, i can't help you directly, but perhaps if you have a look at Paul Mitchell's blog (http://blogs.sun.com/paulm/) it might help you with these issues, as might Alan Perry's blog entry http://blogs.sun.com/alanp/entry/setting_up_a_mac_mini btw, I wouldn't describe Marvell hardware as Open - all the ON code for Marvell chips is in usr/closed as its delivery via http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/on-closed-bins.i386.tar.bz2 demonstrates. hth, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
