Hi Damian,
Damian Wojslaw wrote: > jan damborsky pisze: >> Hi Damian, >> >> it seems you might be hitting some of the following issues: >> >> [1] 6690194 fdisk(1M) doesn't clear VTOC when partition starts after >> or exceeds 4GB limit >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/#6690194 >> >> [2] 3397 Installation of OpenSolaris 2008. 11 development version >> based on SNV 96, 97 fails because of not finding a file >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3397 > > [cut] > > Yes, it seems I was hit by the Linux swap being picked up instead of > Solaris2 partition. My fault for not reading release notes to the end. > It is, however, confusing as hell to potential Linux -> OpenSolaris > converts. They are more then sure to have a swap partition and they > probably never had hit such criptic error during installation. If I > may suggest anything, it may help to put a notice in partitioner > window, if Linux partitions are found, with short info and a link to > release notes. To be honest, I am not quite sure, if this would be the right approach to deal with this. Instead of implementing this kind of warnings in installer, I might recommend that the bug which causes that issue should be fixed: 6670311 kernel picks up Linux swap partition (0x82) instead of Solaris2 (0xbf) one http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6670311 The great thing about OpenSolaris is that everybody is eligible to contribute, so even if the team responsible for the bug doesn't have cycles to take care of it (this might or might not be the case of this bug), it could be addressed by people from community. The more details about how this process actually works can be found at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation/ Please feel free to ask, if you have any questions. Thank you, Jan
