[illumos-Discuss] multiboot-fu needed

[Mike Riley]

On 09/14/10 22:35, LaoTsao 老曹 wrote:
> in  s10 u8 or u9
> U can use different partition for liveupgrade so GRUB can see multiple BE
>
> On 9/14/2010 10:52 PM, Richard Doty wrote:
>> All the docs I read say that it isn't possible to install more than
>> one solaris partition on a disk. Surely that's not literally true.
>> GRUB seems like it could handle it. Maybe the limitation is the
>> default installer? Has anyone cracked this nut already?

Partition, or slice?

A partition is an fdisk partition.  A slice is what you create to "partition" a Solaris disk 
volume, but the proper name is "slice", not "partition", despite the fact that the command line 
format utility still use PARTITION in it's command list for that function.

Mike