This is unsupported. The partitions created by Solaris 10 will cause problems with booting Vista. Only OpenSolaris B70B and above correctly handle creation of partitions without resulting in a non- bootable Vista partition. I also do not recommend you use the built- in Vista resize function, it does not correctly negotiate disk boundaries, resulting in various problems with other operating systems. Vista will boot from GRUB on OpenSolaris SXDE 09/07 (B70B) and Solaris will work with pre-made partitions, but create one first for Vista with a livecd or Windows XP install cd. For example on a 250GB, I created a 162000mb partition for Windows on one of my machines, and left 75000mb free then created the partition later with Solaris. It also should be possible to just create two NTFS/FAT32 partitions with XP and change the partition ID, erasing the second and relabeling with Solaris tools, but the leave free space method is much easier.
James On Dec 26, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Crambit wrote: > Hi all, > few week ago I tried to resize my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000) with Win > vista home premium already installed, in order to install Solaris 10 > 8/07. > The new partition went fine and I installed Solaris but, at first > boot I > couldn't access Vista anymore. I tried so many things but I couldn't > get > back the partition with Windows. Solaris worked fine (well... problems > with the video card and ethernet card but apart from that all ok). > Then I decided to reinstall Vista and now I'd like to try again with > some advices from you guys of what went wrong before and what I have > to > do in order to have both OS. > > Any suggestions/clue are appriciated! > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20071226/f044172d/attachment.html>
