Jeff and Sarah, The only OS I can get into now is the Windows OS. I looked in the disk management section in Windows. It shows two healthy partitions of about 53GB each. Neither partition is labeled. But the active partition shows 100% free, which makes me think that this partition is empty.
The other partition is the FAT32 file system, which I think is the Windows OS. It is only 58% free. So, from the disk management view, I'd say the Indiana install failed. The disk panel in the Indiana installer showed that it was going to try to install to the Solaris 53GB partition. I'm not sure how to get to fdisk utility from inside Windows? This laptop was factory installed with Windows XP 64-bit. I wonder if it's going to refuse to let me multiboot the system. In which case, maybe my only option is to overwrite everthing with Solaris OS, removing the existing Windows? Barbara Sarah Jelinek wrote: >Jeff Victor wrote: > > >>Is the Solaris partition the active partition? >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> >>>Jyothi and I are trying to setup an Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop for Jyothi >>>to use for Indiana. >>> >>>The laptop already has Windows XP Professional 64-bit installed on it, >>>and has a partition >>>setup for Solaris. >>> >>>I successfully, I think, installed the Indiana Preview OS into the >>>existing Solaris partition. >>>But, the laptop will only boot to the Windows XP 64-bit OS. No grub menu >>>displays. >>> >>>Is this an "impossible" setup due to 64-bit Windows? Or, should I be >>>able to edit the BIOS in some way to >>>enable a grub menu to open with Windows and Indiana? >>> >>> >>> > >What should happen during the install is that we write a new grub menu >that actually has the solaris partition in it, and generally we don't >include the windows partition. That is a known bug. > >I would like to see the /tmp/install_log, or if rebooted the logs would >be at: > >/var/sadm/system/nsi/install_log >/var/sadm/system/nsi/gui-install_log > >As for the partition being active, it should be set to active by the >installer as part of postinstall processing. So, if it wasn't active it >should be after install. > >Can you run fdisk on this device so I can see what it thinks about the >partitions? > >thanks, >sarah >**** > > > > >>>Barbara >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>indiana-discuss mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >indiana-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
