On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Steven Stallion wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: >> This is good to know. Although I haven't got a new system in quite some >> time, and don't have any with Vista (most of my systems don't even have >> windows on them;-). This could save me a lot of time/grief when I do run >> across one. >> >> The one that gives me fits is the MacBook, I have boot camp on mine and >> can't get the firmware upgraded (have followed the online page at Apple >> for boot camp, but it didn't work for me to upgrade the firmware). > > +1 > > I have had fits with my MacBook Pro as well. It seems that any time I > attempt to resize my BootCamp NTFS partition (XP Pro) I end up bricking > the entire partition table.
Steve, I tried to create the bootable CD that was reccomended on the Mac webpage, so upgrade the firmware, but have not been successful in several tries. I keep getting an update notice for the newer firmware, but it always fails to install. I hate to have to reformat my MacBook just to upgrade the firmware from 1.1 to 1.2. Truth be told, I can function fine on Mac OSX, all I need is wifi (which coincidentally always works for me) and I can ssh to my server and have a true Solaris terminal, no VMs of any type, just a true Solaris terminal. > I've used GParted with a fair amount of success on other hardware - I > wonder if the newer GUID partitioning scheme used with the intel mac's > have something to do with it. I think it has to do with how OSX handles the EFI lables possibly. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
