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

[Basant Kumar kukreja]

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 from Linux fdisk command
so I didn't need to do the fdisk.real hack.

Thanks a lot for your help. I will try to blog my experience in installing
opensolaris.

Regards,
Basant.

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:07:27AM +0100, jan damborsky wrote:
> 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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