Basant,
you are welcome.
Glad to help :-)
Jan
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote:
> Thanks Jan,
>Blog was very helpful. Prime cause why it was failing was because of EFI
> partition. After I reset the partition id of EFI partition (#1) using "setpid
> 1
> to AF" and rebooted, my problem went away
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:17:53AM -0600, James Cornell wrote:
> Basant Kumar kukreja wrote:
> > Any suggestion or workaround?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Basant.
> >
> Make sure you have Solaris as a primary partition located at #3 or #4.
> Remove your Linux swap to make room and use a file-backend i
Thanks Jan,
Blog was very helpful. Prime cause why it was failing was because of EFI
partition. After I reset the partition id of EFI partition (#1) using "setpid 1
to AF" and rebooted, my problem went away and opensolaris installed and booted
just fine. I had also marked the partition as Active
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote:
> Thanks James, all 3 OSs now just boot fine. All partitions were primary
> partitions. I probably won't need linux so I will wipe it out. I hope if I
> create extended partitions now, I would be able to mount from
> opensolaris/MacOS.
>
> Regards,
> Basant.
>
Yes, yo
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote:
> Any suggestion or workaround?
>
> Regards,
> Basant.
>
Make sure you have Solaris as a primary partition located at #3 or #4.
Remove your Linux swap to make room and use a file-backend instead. You
may need to reinstall GRUB after installing OpenSolaris from the l
Hi Basant,
it is likely that existence of EFI partition is the reason
why you are encountering this problem.
As far as dual boot of Solaris and MacOS is concerned,
I have found following blog which might help you to
workaround that issue:
http://blogs.sun.com/paulm/entry/dual_partitioning_a_macb
Thanks for responding.
yes, I have looked at it. However my steps are little different. I have
installed refit. I shrinked the partition using diskutil command (not gparted).
Since I installed Fedora 10 on it so I used fdisk from fedora 10 (similar to
what is mentioned using gparted cd). I created
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote:
> I am trying to install opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 build on macbook pro. I am
> trying to do dual boot on same machine.
Have you looked at this?
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Dual_Boot
Cheers,
Jim
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I am trying to install opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 build on macbook pro. I am
trying to do dual boot on same machine. Installation fails saying :
Couldn't obtain information about geometry of /dev/rdsk/c4d0s2.
Could not crate VTOC target
TI process failed.
# fdisk -G [ output typed from hand ]
Partiti
