[ug-bosug] Fwd: [caiman-discuss] Roadmap updated

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

This will be a good project opportunity.

~Joe


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM>
> Date: 2 August 2007 8:56:45 PM GMT+05:30
> To: Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com>
> Cc: caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org, docs-discuss <docs- 
> discuss at opensolaris.org>
> Subject: Re: [caiman-discuss] Roadmap updated
>
> Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
>> I know that the Vista/Solaris interaction has been fixed in snv_70.
>>
>
> Right, that was Moinak's fix to 6510526.
>
> As for capturing more info about the other installations into the
> Solaris GRUB menu, we already do what we can for Windows, and it  
> should
> generally be right with that bug fix.  Linux is a tougher problem,
> because we don't have either extended partition support, or read  
> support
> for any of the Linux file system formats, so we usually can't  
> locate or
> identify the installed Linux instances.  Getting those two things  
> added
> to the system will give us the basic support we require to allow  
> better
> integration with the other OS's.  Our team isn't going to take on  
> either
> of those problems, but I'll be trying to get teams committed to  
> doing so.
>
> Dave
>
>> -sanjay
>>
>>
>> Brian Gupta wrote:
>>> On 8/1/07, *Dave Miner* <Dave.Miner at sun.com
>>> <mailto:Dave.Miner at sun.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Thanks to Tasha's efforts, a more complete version of the  
>>> installer
>>>     roadmap is now up on the web site.
>>>
>>>     http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Roadmap/
>>>     <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Roadmap/>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave, I'm not sure if this falls under Caiman, but I've recently  
>>> seen
>>> a number of cases where users are complaining that Grub is  
>>> overwriting
>>> their MBR without capturing what is contained. ( e.g. Say you have
>>> existing Vista and Linux partitions on your HD, and you install
>>> Solaris on a third partition, it should write a grub config that  
>>> let's
>>> you choose between all three...)
>>>
>>> -Brian
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