hi rajesh,
I have tried a betaversion of solaris8 for intel,and from the way solaris
deals with partitions I understand that the solaris fdisk program and solaris
on intel does not understand LBA modes of the IDE hdd.so if your hdd is
already in normal mode the cylinders would be the same,but if the ide bios
uses LBA then solaris gets confused.but I had successfully installed solaris
on a 4gb hdd along with linux and win,but linux fdisk was complaining that
the partition table was not correct and the cylinder does not end on sector
etc.so I manually reedited the partition table to fix it.to make the dualboot
possible.but anyway solaris on intel sick.It is only good enough to take a
peek at cde(if you manage to get Xsun support your card) and get an idea of
solaris.
replying to:
Hi all,
Sorry for this OT post on this list.
I got hold of Solaris8 CD and wanted to try it out. Since Solaris installs
only on a primary partition, I had to remove my freebsd partition. At present
my partitions are as follows :
debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2096 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 256 766 4104607+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 767 961 1566337+ a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda4 962 2096 9116887+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 962 1326 2931831 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6 1327 1691 2931831 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda7 1692 1946 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1947 1962 128488+ 82 Linux swap
Now when I boot the Solaris8 CD and reach the partitioning stage, the Solaris
fdisk asks me to create a Solaris partition. I removed BSD partition and
created
the Solaris partition. Now the problem is, as u can see above my BSD partition
is below 1023 cylinder. However the Solaris shows the same partitions with
different cylinder numbers :
Partition # Size Start Cylinder
1 2GB 1 (Primary Partition)
2 4GB 4065 (Primary Partition)
3 1.5GB 12209 (Primary Partition)
4 8GB 15316 (Extended Partition)
As u can see, the Start Cylinder no. is completely different in Solaris ???
Due to this. Solaris fdisk complains that Solaris / is above 1023 cylinder
limit
and asks me to correct it. I can not skip further without this.
Has anybody installed Solaris8 on this list ? Why solaris8 fdisk behaves as
above ?
Any clues ?
Sorry for this long OT mail.
Thanks in advance.
Warm Regards
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