> Would someone be willing to help me understand what I
> need to download and to do to get Solaris installed
> on a Mac Intel ?
I've installed it like this:
I prepared an USB 2.0 Solaris x86 boot HDD for the intel imac:
- I got an empty USB 2.0 HDD, attached to a non intel mac Solaris x86 system
- fdisk, created a 100% solaris fdisk partition on USB HDD
- format -> partition, created solaris root slice and swap slice (and space for
a zfs pool)
- newfs, mounted new root slice
- ufsdump & ufsrestore: cloned existing snv_38 x86 system to USB 2.0 hdd
- replaced grub and multiboot kernel module on USB HDD, with versions including
the fixes
mentioned in this thread
- installgrub on USB 2.0 hdd
The idea was to boot the intel imac from this USB 2.0 HDD. Apple's bootcamp
BIOS
does support BIOS access to the external USB 2.0 HDD; but unfortunatelly the USB
HDD isn't included in the boot selector menu that pops up when you boot the
intel imac with
the left alt key pressed. I'm not sure why this doesn't work.
But it is possible to boot GRUB (a GRUB with the above mentioned fixes) from an
optical Solaris
x86 install media, enter GRUB command line mode, and boot the intel imac from
the USB HDD
with the commands
rootnoverify(hd1,0,0,)
chainloader +1
boot
Now all you have to do is fix the bootpath property and the /etc/vfstab file on
the USB HDD.
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