> Ok, for posterity: I put the Indiana Developer > Preview in again, ran the Solaris fdisk, set the > partition ID for my Solaris partition to Solaris2, > ran the graphical installer, and it worked! It > detected the Solaris partition and rightly ignored > the rest of the disk. Of course, it screwed up > Ubuntu's grub so I couldn't boot back into Linux > until I had reinstalled grub on the Ubuntu partition, > it screwed up Ubuntu's grub so I couldn't boot back into Linux until I had > reinstalled grub on the Ubuntu partition
So the first time one installs Ubuntu it (grub) goes into the MBR, so then you have to override the default and select the root partition to install the grub is that a fair statment? > but it worked, so I'm happy. I'd like to complement > the people working on the installer; the Indiana > Developer Preview is a vast improvement! > Compatibility with Linux partition managers has > obviously improved, and I really, really appreciate > how the system doesn't do things for minutes on end > without giving any feedback, leading you to wonder > whether it has had a silent kernel panic, or > something similarly show-stopping. > > Keep up the good work! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
