Thursday April 13, 2006 Weblog
Thursday April 13, 2006 Solaris Nevada build 36 running on an iMac
We now have Solaris Nevada build 36 installed and running on a bootcamp equipped iMac.
The most significant hurdles were conquered when Juergen Keil enabled both multiboot and GRUB to work in a i8042 free system. That work is covered by 6412224 and 6412226.
The next hurdle is that the Solaris fdisk doesn't interact all that well with the bootcamp prepared disk. This is 6413235. The reason this becomes a hurdle is that install re-writes the fdisk table even when we can simply use the existing one. That is 6413240.
This is all using the bootcamp bits which make the Macs look like just another (BIOS bugs and all) x86 system. Bringing Solaris up in native (EFI) mode is still the real challenge.
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Any news on this?
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