[indiana-discuss] Indiana DP2 installer not working on MacBook?

[Jim Walker]

Stephen Lau wrote:
>> I've not tried Indiana, but have had similar problems
>> on my macbook pro 
>> for SXDE. I did get it installed by using the
>> diskutil under Macos to 
>> create the partitions, For some reason I needed a
>> small amount in a 
>> partition between the MacOS and the Solaris one.
>>
>> Some notes on how to do this are on Paul Mitchell's
>> blog - it might be 
>> worth trying before installing Indiana
>>
>> http://blogs.sun.com/paulm/entry/dual_partitioning_a_m
>> acbook_pro
> 
> Yeah - I followed Paul's blog and left a similar small amount (1%) between the MacOS & Solaris partitions... but no dice.
> 
> I'll try with SXCE today instead, but I was hoping to get Indiana onto this thing.

I'll be redoing my dual boot macbook this week, due to my computer
getting xrayed too many times :) I'll let you know how it goes.

I wasn't able to get SXCE_86 installed until I used gparted to
turn the solaris partition into a linux-swap, then using the
rEFIt tool to update the MBR.

I would like to capture the steps on a wiki instead of a blog here:
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Dual_Boot

Anyone can update the page.

Cheers,
Jim