[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Wiki page for adding a Windows GRUB entry

[Gary Mills]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 06:56:46PM +0200, Jean-Pierre wrote:
> Jean-Pierre wrote:
> >Gary Mills wrote:
> >>On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
> >>>
> >>>You can see the end result here:
> >>>http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26543005
> >>>
> >>>Tell me if you like it or would rather do it differently.
> >>
> >>You have some old information there. The Solaris fdisk partition
> >>type no longer is the same as the Linux swap type. The source for
> >>the `fdisk' command contains a table of all partition types, with
> >>these two included:
> >>
> >>"Solaris/Linux swap", /* 130 */
> >>"Solaris2", /* 191 */
> >>
> >>These are 0x82 and 0xbf respectively. The illumos fdisk command
> >>selects the second one by default, and will offer to change from
> >>the old one to the new one.
> >
> >It has nothing to do with fdisk, but with the installer
> >when using a disk already partitioned. The installer
> >refused to install on a disk where two Solaris partitions
> >were present (one of them being intended for the Linux
> >swap, not to be changed to 0xbf).
> 
> I have just made a try, and this is also true for oi151a8 :
> if you have two partitions with types 0x82 and 0xbf, the
> installer refuses to install, displaying "There must be
> only one Solaris partition".

It sounds as if the OI installer needs to be fixed.  Can you file
a bug report on this problem, if it hasn't already been done?

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