[illumos-Discuss] multiboot-fu needed

[Mike Riley]

On 09/15/10 07:53, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> If you plan ahead for this and use slices (which are kind of like
> 'partitions in a partition') intelligently, you can have many different
> installs of Solaris.  I think on x86 hardware up to 16 slices are
> supported on a given partition.   (On SPARC its only 8.)

Correct about the slices.  An RFE I filed way back when proposed a way to let SPARC also get 16 
slices.  The only reason it still has 8 is for backwards compatibility with SunOS.

The idea of the RFE was so that removable disks from an X86 system could be read and written on 
a SPARC system for data interchange.

Unless format has been updated you can only view and set the slices past 7 using prtvtoc/fmthard.

As you should be able to tell from my posts on this thread, I have been inside this code for 
years, and have wanted to fix it forever...

Mike