Uwe Dippel wrote: > [i]I believe the installer only assumes one Solaris2 fdisk partition[/i] > [snip] > I did try this before, and it worked pretty well, except that it required a > very hackish way at boot: > Partition Status Type Start End Length % > ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === > 1 Linux native 0 36 37 0 > 2 Solaris2 37 9763 9727 32 > 3 Solaris2 9764 12196 2433 8 > > Booting to partition 2 with grub worked straightforward, whatever the type of > partition 3 would be. When booting partition 3, I had to go to Linux in > between, fdisk another partition type for partition 2. I guess, in order for > the slice handler to *not* access the same slice number in that 'earlier' > partition 2. >
I thought I read somewhere that the fdisk spec says that there can only be one fdisk partition of a particular type, thus your experiment in creating two Solaris2 fdisk partitions is invalid and that is perhaps why Solaris does not behave correctly. -joe _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
