[ug-atlosug] follow-up : ATLOSUG Meeting - Tues., Dec. 11

[Scott Dickson]

Sorry to have missed the meeting this week. 

I have seen some discussion of a bug in b79 about fdisk's ability to 
calculate partition sizes correctly.  This could well be what you hit.

--SCott

Chris.Jones at Sun.COM wrote:
> Thanks for those who came to the OSUG meeting last Tuesday. 
> We were doing an install on Mike Sweeney's laptop using Nevada Build 79 
> to dual boot with Vista.
>
> Here's an update:
> Although we had problems booting Solaris after the install during the 
> meeting, Mike did not give up.
> - Mike booted the nevada79 DVD again and broke out of the install-gui 
> and ran fdisk again.
> - He deleted the Solaris2 partition and re-created a new Solaris2 
> partition at a slightly different size, then returned to the install GUI.
> (If you can not find the path to the gui-installer command just reboot 
> the DVD)
> - Mike made 3 partitions: NTFS (Vista)/ Solaris2 (nevada) / FAT32 
> (shared - mount to either nevada or Vista)
> - I think Mike made the Solaris2 partition the "active" partition. (Mike 
> please confirm)  He did not need to run "installgrub".
> - Once the nevada install was finished, it booted correctly.
> - Now grub menu shows Solaris / xVM / Windows
> - Vista booted correctly WITHOUT have to mess with the MBR.
> - So now we can state that dual boot with Vista installs just like dual 
> boot with Windows XP.
>
> So you can ignore the special workaround steps that used "dd" to capture 
> the MBR for Vista and Nevada.
> Also Grub is now the only boot manager needed, instead of the two layer 
> boot manager I showed. 
> This eliminates the need to run bcdedit for Windows boot manager.
>
> As of Nevada build 79, you're good to go.  Just partition and install.
>
> Thanks again for your interest.
> -Chris Jones
>
>
> Scott Dickson - Systems Engineer wrote:
>   
>> The next meeting of the Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group will be held 
>> Tuesday, December 11, at 7PM at the Sun office in Alpharetta.  Details 
>> and directions can be found on the ATLOSUG website at 
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/atl-osug.
>>
>> What: Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group
>> When: Tuesday, December 11, 7-9PM
>> Where: Sun Microsystems, 3655 North Point Parkway, Suite 600
>>
>> Topic: Running OpenSolaris on your laptop.  Chris Jones will share his 
>> experiences building a dual-boot environment with Vista.  Mike Sweeney 
>> will discuss his experience with OpenSolaris as a laptop environment.  
>> Bring your own questions, tips, tricks.
>>
>> Special reminder - The January meeting of ATLOSUG will be held on 
>> Wednesday, Jan 8, as a part of the OpenSolaris track at Sun's Tech Days 
>> event.  This will be at the Cobb Galleria.  Ian Murdock, originator of 
>> Debian and the leader of the Indiana effort within OpenSolaris will 
>> speak.  Take a minute to register for Tech Days at 
>> http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/
>>
>> --SCott
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