Notes from a Carbon Based Life Form

Well. I finally managed to get the Sun Solaris Operating Environment installed on my Intel-based Apple Mac Mini. More specifically, I managed to get a patched version of Solaris Express build 46, which should be available to the public VSN, installed onto the Mini.

*edit: It appears that changes required to multiboot, grub, stage2 (and stage2_eltorito), as well as to fdisk, should be available in build 47 of Solaris Express, which should be available by mid-September at the latest, considering build 46 is available now as the Solaris Express Community Release as linked from the OpenSolaris ON Downloads Page.

tcsh-[107]% prtdiag
System Configuration: Apple Computer, Inc. Macmini1,1
BIOS Configuration: Apple Computer, Inc. MM11.88Z.0055.B03.0604071521 04/07/06

==== Processor Sockets ====================================

Version Location Tag
-------------------------------- --------------------------
Genuine Intel(R) CPU T U2E1
Genuine Intel(R) CPU T U2E1

==== Memory Device Sockets ================================

Type Status Set Device Locator Bank Locator
------- ------ --- ------------------- --------------------
DDR2 in use 0 DIMM0 BANK 0
DDR2 in use 0 DIMM1 BANK 1

==== On-Board Devices =====================================
Integrated Graphics Controller
Yukon Ethernet Controller
Azalia Audio Codec
SATA
PATA

==== Upgradeable Slots ====================================

ID Status Type Description
--- --------- ---------------- ----------------------------
2 available PCI Express AirPort

I did have one little bug, though, (6374895) related to the Solaris fdisk binary, and the Apple EFI disk label. The Solaris install seems to have eaten my Mac OS X partition. It did, however, leave Apple's Boot Camp as the bootloader though, so that's nice. With a keyboard, and a Left-ALT key, I can boot from CD if I need to. :)

I guess now I'll have to bootstrap a gcc just to compare it against my linux server, and my Sun Ultra 20 Workstation.