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

[Basant Kumar kukreja]

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 instead.  You
> may need to reinstall GRUB after installing OpenSolaris from the livecd
> with the bootadm and grub-install commands, but only do so if you're
> sure rEFIt is working (Preferably boot from OpenSolaris installation
> manually using the Linux GRUB if you have to so GRUB can just think it's
> running under BIOS instead off having it guess like it does with the
> LiveCD)
> 
> James
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.