And I think, some change has been done to 'installgrub' to enable it to boot logical partition.
-Narendra On Dec 17, 2007 9:16 PM, NagarajY - WFH (x87076 -> 91 80 98451 66292) < Nagaraj.Yedathore at sun.com> wrote: > Niall, > > > I have a few questions about the planned support for extended > partitioning in OpenSolaris. > > At the slim install meeting a couple of weeks back someone mentioned > that they had > > successfully installed Solaris onto a logical volume inside an extended > partition but the > > system couldn't be booted after installation. > > > I had mentioned about booting problem after successfully installing on > the Logical Partition. But it turned > out to be the problem with kernel bits that enables identifying the root > fs for mounting. > > I've been doing some investigations of my own and from my limited > understanding it seems > > that it's not possible to directly boot from a logical volume/partition. > The PC bios will read > > the MBR and find the active primary partition. It will then pass over > control to the boot > > record inside the active primary partition. It seems you need to either > overwrite the MBR > > with a custom boot loader program, or create a primary active partition > that contains > > a boot loader capable of booting the OS on the logical volume/partition. > > > Yea. This is why we used 'installgrub -m' to have the > logical-partition-aware grub installed in the MBR. > > Thanks, > Nagaraj. > > Can anyone clarify on what the plan to support booting from extended > partitions is, > > the basic mechanism and if there are any implications from a > partitioning perspective? > > > > Thanks, > > Niall. > > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > caiman-discuss mailing list > > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > -- Warm Regards, Narendra Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20071217/d2adbb40/attachment.html>
