Hi, I'm somewhat new to solaris and have been trying out solaris express (nee opensolaris) first on VirtualBox for about a year, and more recently on a multiboot hdd install (xp, solaris & fedora 14, with the mbr pointing to solaris grub).
After some recent, intermittent boot difficulties (apparently the bios is occasionally not recognizing the mbr and/or partition table), I checked the partitition layout using gparted both from a fedora live cd and, when the hdd was again bootable (with no intervention), from the hd-installed fedora. Both instances showed the mysterious appearance of 3 'extra' solaris partitions that mirror the original in size, appended after the original, 'real' solaris partition. Interestingly, the new partitions are not showing up in gparted run from solaris express, or by "fdisk -l" in the fedora terminal. I suspect these may have something to do with zfs snapshots, even though I have not enabled them in the "Time Slider"... is that a reasonable assumption? Any reason to be alarmed? Is solaris express rewriting the partititon table in such a way as to be the source of my intermittent boot problems? How can I manage this situation? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
