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Thursday Nov 23, 2006

Solaris Partitions (contd..)

During the exercise, I have come up with some of the utilities/features thath we can implement in Solaris indenpendently or as part of fdisk/format.

(a) Display all the parts with their part type
(b) Ability to create a new partition
(c) Ability to change the partition type
(d) Store backup of the vtoc of part entires in some file
(e) Print the vtoc ... check whether it's sane?
(f) Recover manager : In case of lost vtoc entries, the utility should be able to recover ufs parts

Posted at 12:37PM Nov 23, 2006 by vbjoshi in General  |  Comments[5]

Comments:

Hi, I´ m absolutely interested in using Solaris. In fact I tried out SX but I wasn´ t able to install it as multboot. Can you help me? Do you know a website where there is a step by step description? My partitiopns: 1. boot partition with grub 16 MB 2. Win XP 60 MB 3. Suse 10.1 60 MB 4. Empty (reserved for Solaris) I´ ve read multiboot.solaris.org, but that is very old. Their version of Solaris didn´ t have grub support Thanks in advance

Posted by Dennis on November 23, 2006 at 06:42 PM IST #

install to the reserved partition as normal and then use the suse or other rescure/livecd to reinstall the suse grub to the MBR... then add a chainloader entry to solaris just as i does to windows. works everytime. this is my menu.lst default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ selinux=0 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img title Solaris rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1

Posted by sol on November 23, 2006 at 07:52 PM IST #

ahhh, thanks a lot. So when the SX installer asks me to install grub in the MBR, I simply deny and edit the menu.lst manually?

Posted by Dennis on November 23, 2006 at 09:17 PM IST #

editing the menu.lst is not necessary, only deny installing Grub.

Posted by 217.95.109.176 on November 24, 2006 at 05:28 AM IST #


Actually speaking, I could have just one Solaris partition which have 16 slices infact. And different Solaris/opensolaris revesions like Solaris 10 or BeleniX could be installed on those. Slices like /export/home or /space can be shared also.

Make each slice bootable as per requirements. In such case, I'd be more than happy to have BeleniX grub loader insteadof Linux.

But. as I have installed Solaris in two different partitions that's why I need to have another boot grub loader. The menu.lst needs tobe changed in Linux as 'sol' mentioned in previous comments like,

titleSolaris
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

---xxx---

Posted by Vivek Joshi on November 24, 2006 at 11:17 AM IST #

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