This will be a good project opportunity. ~Joe
Begin forwarded message: > From: Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM> > Date: 2 August 2007 8:56:45 PM GMT+05:30 > To: Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> > Cc: caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org, docs-discuss <docs- > discuss at opensolaris.org> > Subject: Re: [caiman-discuss] Roadmap updated > > Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: >> I know that the Vista/Solaris interaction has been fixed in snv_70. >> > > Right, that was Moinak's fix to 6510526. > > As for capturing more info about the other installations into the > Solaris GRUB menu, we already do what we can for Windows, and it > should > generally be right with that bug fix. Linux is a tougher problem, > because we don't have either extended partition support, or read > support > for any of the Linux file system formats, so we usually can't > locate or > identify the installed Linux instances. Getting those two things > added > to the system will give us the basic support we require to allow > better > integration with the other OS's. Our team isn't going to take on > either > of those problems, but I'll be trying to get teams committed to > doing so. > > Dave > >> -sanjay >> >> >> Brian Gupta wrote: >>> On 8/1/07, *Dave Miner* <Dave.Miner at sun.com >>> <mailto:Dave.Miner at sun.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks to Tasha's efforts, a more complete version of the >>> installer >>> roadmap is now up on the web site. >>> >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Roadmap/ >>> <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Roadmap/> >>> >>> >>> Dave, I'm not sure if this falls under Caiman, but I've recently >>> seen >>> a number of cases where users are complaining that Grub is >>> overwriting >>> their MBR without capturing what is contained. ( e.g. Say you have >>> existing Vista and Linux partitions on your HD, and you install >>> Solaris on a third partition, it should write a grub config that >>> let's >>> you choose between all three...) >>> >>> -Brian >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
