I've done it natively, but no it's not really nice to initially get on there as only part of the partition problems caused by EFI assumptions have been fixed. Making it work requires you to pre-partition the system before installing Leopard by using the Disk Utility program or by using the diskutil command-line program. Of course you may try and use the bundled Boot Camp Assistant program but will need to use GNU parted from a Linux livecd to remove and recreate the proper Solaris partition over the region it creates. In addition you must use fdisk to change the EFI system partition ID to something that Solaris doesn't think is EFI, by using type af instead of ee, but this will make it impossible to merge the two partitions back together without a complete reinstall of Leopard. You'd also install the open-source rEFIt (http://refit.sf.net) software for a boot loader since the built-in EFI booting firmware only supports Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Tiger/Leopard)
Device support is good, but Atheros and Marvell SysKonnect drivers must be applied after installation as the bundled versions up to as current as I can remember are still not good enough to support the onboard devices. It may sound complex, but it's more time consuming than anything, but the benefit of running it "bare metal" versus through virtualization software (Parallels, VirtualBox, VMware) include ability to use Compiz desktop effects and physical devices. (Such as 3G ExpressCard and some industry-specific hardware that will for one reason or another not work through USB host emulation under software) Performance considerations may also tilt the benefits toward going native, though I can attest that ACPI support for suspend/resume, cpu frequency control and bluetooth support are not there, and these are not issues specific to Apple x86 hardware either. If you'd like more help regarding this request, I wouldn't mind helping. That includes under either native or virtualized environments, as I've personally dealt with both setups on two different MacBook Pro models. (It's Mac not MAC btw...) PS: My experience is with SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) not Indiana on this hardware, and I find Indiana to be lacking in extensibility which this type of setup would most likely depend on. - James C. On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:42 -0300, Thiago Pereira wrote: > Hi guys, > > Has anybody installed OpenSolaris in on Macbook Pro? Is it good, it`s > working nicely? > > Thanks > > TaP > > _______________________________________________ > 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
