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? -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
