The way I'm reading your RE is your wanting NTFS and extended dual boot. The
solaris2 partition has the same identifier as linuxswap in gparted. Opensolaris
installer will define its own swap on that identifier and it becomes solaris2
not extended.
I'm still very much confused with all this but in my situation I basically
made three partitions NTFS,linuxswap,and extended with gparted. It is a 500GB
hd @ hd2. I loaded windows7 first on its NTFS then 2009.06 on the linuxswap.
This worked fine with bios switched priority at hd2. Next I loaded ubuntu 10.10
on the extended making another linuxswap and ext3 root slice. Luckily this was
hd2 because linux grub writes to a hd0. All works fine switching bios between
hd1 and hd2. From ubuntu disk utility hd2 reads: 173GB NTFS device: /dev/sdb1
;159GB Swap space partition solaris 0xbf device: /dev/sdb2; 149GB Extended 0x05
device: /dev/sdb3 leaving 19GB free.
The weird part is inside my extended /dev/sdb3 it shows 5 more devices.
Linux swap 0x82 /dev/sdb5 at 4 GB and EXT3 149GB 0x83 /dev/sdb6 I made but it
shows 3 more devices I guess the extended partition is trying to mirror or
something between swap. Device /dev/sdb7 is zfs solaris 0xbf @ 159GB; /dev/sdb8
is swap space solaris 0xbf 159GB; and/dev/sdb9 is swap space solaris 0xbf 159GB.
I'm not trying to hijack another thread but I feel this could be relative
information. Not sure how you will keep opensolaris within a native linux
extended once it installs. And I'm not sure about the mess I have either but
its seems to boot either or fine.
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