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

[jan damborsky]

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 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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