Hi, The aim of the project is to enable the installation and booting of OpenSolaris from an extended partition.
This project will be delivered in multiple phases. The first phase is to introduce all OS changes necessary to support booting from and managing extended partitions on OpenSolaris. Here are the list of changes for phase 1 : 1. Driver Changes ( cmlb : modification) 2. Tools to perform partitioning (fdisk, format : modification) 3. Library to provide partitioning support (libfdisk : new) 4. Grub changes ( GRUB and installgrub : modification) The next phase involves changes to the installer. However, this is distribution specific and the changes might be independent of each other. One more possible change for the next phase involves creating device nodes for the extended partitions. Currently we do not create any nodes for the extended partitions. The phase 1 changes have already been mostly completed. However, a detailed review and subsequent code changes are yet to be done. Looking for the community support to make the project move to completion. The PSARC materials and the existing code will be put up shortly. Thanks, Pavan Chandrahekar Sheshadri Vasudevan This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
