[illumos-Discuss] multiboot-fu needed

LaoTsao 老曹 laotsao at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 23:09:35 PDT 2010


  slice
thx

On 9/15/2010 1:40 AM, Mike Riley wrote:
> 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
>
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