I've experimented with some of this and still am confused. In one example I got
a Linux partition with freebsd bootloader as the active partition on hd0. Their
are three partitions on hd0. Windows xp and solaris being the other two. You
can easily boot any of the three Os's from the freebsd bootloader and the
loader shows only the partitions in hd0. Solaris grup shows or tries to show
foreign partitions common in hd0 and hd1. I say foreign because like you said a
different solaris partition which is not active from bios is not visible to
solaris grup. To get the other solaris partition I merely select that hd to
boot in bios.
My questions or confusion still lies in the solaris slices. Snv mainly uses
three slices root / s0, swap s1or2? and export s6or7?? In opensolaris I
believe s4 is reserved for upgrade root. Is it possible to hold Solaris 10 and
opensolaris on different slices of the same partition???? What is the primary
purpose of the potential 7 slices??
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