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

[Jean-Pierre]

Gary Mills wrote:
> 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?

Done as bug #4096 (who is going to get the next power of 2 ?)