Hi, It's because there is only one slice namespace (s0..s15). If you had two solaris partitions, only one would be accessible at a time (there are ways of doing that, I.e. Via partition type changes by a boot loader), but we don't support that even though it would probably work.
--S On Jun 25, 2010, at 9:59 AM, sanjay nadkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/24/10 03:51 PM, pa27180 wrote: >> Dave, >> >> I understand what you mean but I was not involved in the decision process >> that lead to this situation. >> Now this is my job and, if it is not possible, I have to find another way to >> make it work. >> >> I have already a few solutions (2 separate disks instead of one, use >> OpenSolaris and Linux instead of 2x OpenSolaris, ...). >> >> I was wondering why installing 2x OpenSolaris, each on a primary partition, >> would cause a problem. >> >> Sorry for boring with my question, >> Patrick >> > I am trying to dig and get the exact reason why this but IIRC this has is > prevented since there is a device name space conflict. > > However, if are planning to install on two disks, why not have 2 separate > instances of OpenSolaris on the same primary partition. > > -Sanjay > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
