[indiana-discuss] opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 on macbook pro (fdisk fails during installation)

[jan damborsky]

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_macbook_pro

Best regards,
Jan


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. 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 ]
> Partition  Status  Type   ....
> 1                  EFI
> 2                  Other OS
> 3          Active  Linux Native
> 4          Active  Solaris2
>
> Previously when Partition 4 was not active, I was having error mentioned in
> (fdisk -F fails). 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6413235
>
> After I made the partition active (from Linux fdisk command), now fdisk
> is not able to get partition geometry.
> I found some similar issues :
> http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6624133
>
> Mac OS X and Linux are booting fine. I used "diskutil resizeVolume" to shrink
> the original partition.
>
> Any suggestion or workaround?
>
> Regards,
> Basant.
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