Thank you very much. That is helpful. One question first and forgive my ignorance if I don't understand this correctly. It states that the Linux swap partition must not be a primary partition but rather a logical partition. My understanding of Logical partitions was that they are partitions created within an extended partition.
The problem with that is that I recall reading when checking about the gotchas about installing OpenSolaris side by side with Linux that there should be no extended partition as OpenSolaris does not support it. Ubuntu originally installed itself inside and extended partition and I did some partition juggling copying the partition off and back again using and external hard drive so that the drive did not contain any extended partitions. I fixed Ubuntu's boot loader to take into account the changes. All worked fine. Does this mean that the Linux swap needs to be in an extended partition but just the Linux main partitions need to stay as primary partitions (I.e. because Solaris doesn't support extended partitions and so the Boot Loader of Solaris would not be able to boot Linux if the Linux partition were inside an extended partition. But the Linux swap doesn't matter because it would only get used when Linux was running and could happily read it from the extended partition.) Am I on the right track here? I can try and do that if you think that will work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
