Solaris can only use 1 FDISK partition per disk. The reason for this is that on SPARC there are no FDISK partitions - only slices. When Solaris was ported to x86, the solution was to make one big Solaris FDISK partition and put all Solaris slices inside it.
Also, Solaris currently doesn't understand extended partitions, so anything you put in there won't be accessible from within Solaris. What you really want is this: Partition 1: Solaris (with a root pool and data pool as seperate slices) Partition 2: Linux Partition 3: Linux Swap Partition 4: Windows Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org
